384. Poem: Poets and Scholars

I became a poet because I could not be a scholar, to suggest deep thoughts rather than actually have them, unless you're Yeats maybe odor of blood when Christ was slain made all Platonic tolerance vain and vain all Doric discipline so deep, but maybe not: exactly how did the blood make the Greek things vain? Poets don't need to spell it out or back it up and when rulers are on the spot who are they going to turn to, get burned enough times and they'll turn to scholars we hope which I cannot be but if I have to be a poet I hope it's one like Yeats.