Check your television page and watch a few hours of Wagon Train. It's a cowboy western series from the beat era. Post jazz-age cattle drives and mass migrations. Very different attitudes among people. On the television show, as compared to people now. Yet people were always missing a few spokes. Troubled. Dealing with conflict that was either carried in, or that attacked from behind a bush. In so many ways, people are a danger to themselves and others. There were no therapists on Wagon Train. Only conflict, resolution, and attractive cow personage. Let's aspire like rattle snakes under a flat rock beside a cactus.
I'm making an innocent proposal. The federal government should kill 98 percent of all people who claim to be a poet. The surviving 2 percent can be absorbed into institutions, whatever type they belong in. Universities. Jails. State hospitals. Free nymphomaniac therapists. An audience on demand when you need to recite your latest work of genius. An orgy. It would be great. The end.
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