Bards and Society

Bards and society Poets are gentle people who like to form a group for writers with an eccentric title, “a thousand poets against war.” Poetry is only useful for dictators and those who like to demonstrate how literal they are. Dictators find them valuable if they extoll the regime If not, you are exiled or jailed. Poets are subjected to flattery, the lucky one gets a medal before they die of consumption. I was thinking of this when lost in a city, with many statues of generals riding an iron horse. And a bust of the sensible poet in the entrance of a downtrodden hotel.