A good topic for a poem:  The hermits grocery store!

Few people have read the Cantos.  Obviously, the allusion is difficult.
 People don't read this kind of poetry anymore.  If they do they are
the erudites like the people on this list.  In fact, I often lament the
fact that my own poetry cannot be understood nor taken seriously
because people are not grounded in the classics. Pound is a classic but
most people like fast food in a fast paced society.  It is true that
literature must be easily accessible and digestible for people to
"tolerate" it.  Most people who get a Ph.D. in Literature are finding
out that literature is rarely taught anymore, they can't find jobs.
The comp and rhet people have taken over and Dante and Vergil (and
Pound, Wilbur, Eliot) have been purged from the curriculum.  Because
the public doesn't have a firm grounding in the classics, allusions are
now made to Nike, McDonalds, and Steven King.  Yes, we are the hermetic
types.  Somebody has to keep this stuff alive until Rome falls, once
again.

Stoner, the Ascetic

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