Soon,

visitors will be able to read poetry books

donated by publishers

in local pubs and drinking establishments

Later, there will be bawdy jokes and insults

and eventually fists thrown

Soon, one pint leads to another

Later another and another...

Soon they realize

poetry will not be read

when participants are

passed out on the floor

Later, the books are donated

to the prison

where they will sooner be read

than in some bloody pub.