And families no longer read by the fire.
No one has use for a poet anymore.
A passage or two could send them soaring,
But they stare at the television, since
Children today think books are too boring.
Much more cleanly, a film can underscore
Happiness, sadness, love, and villainy.
No one has use for a poet anymore.
An hour and a half, sufficient exploring
In the world of imagination for
Children that find ideas to be boring.
People can't be bothered to feel in their cores
Inconvenient emotions or epiphanies.
No one has use for a poet anymore.
What exactly is a poet for,
If not to help see further, and more?
Thus, when children find books to be boring,
No one will have use for a poet anymore.
Just a note- this villanelle doesn't follow the form explicitly. I bent the rules a bit for the first repeated phrase so it wouldn't be so... boring. haha.
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