poetry by numbers

Poetry by Numbers I got an email naming the best poets from poetry site ...As expected they were love stories, About loneliness and the mixed bags of The poet’s monotonous candyfloss of anguish. All poems looked worked- shopped, the same Phrases sometimes returned And they were all meticulous in show not tell Which is a mind-numbing mantra. For some, especially The academically inclined, making poetry Into a cross word puzzle I think all 100 poets had the same teacher who, As many poetry teachers do, lives in New Mexico