Lost to the Madding Crowd...

PAD Challenge day 2: write a he said-she said poem

She said ‘I want A Page’

He said, ‘no room enough,

The articles on politics

And news and ads for Stuff

Requires precedence

And I, the editor

Must deem for all the rest of them

What seems most popular

And poetry, they say

Is so passé, 

And rhyme

Oh, dear! My dear,

That passed away

Way, way before your time!

So run along, wee thing

And do not bother me

For we are far too busy here

For things like poetry'

...she said, 'I want a page

Tell me, is there a place

Where there is room enough for me?'

He said, 'try cyberspace'

© Janet Martin

For a little while a local magazine published poetry by local poets among their ads for farm machinery and agriculture, recipes, stories on life as it once was etc...

The ads, articles, recipes, and stories remain but the poetry has disappeared.