The Board

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Colonel Klinks, defend the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss. 

The best book of the age sold two,

or three, or four (but not to you),

strange copies of the ones before,

misreadings that delight the board.

They sit and clap; their revenues

fall trillions short of Mother Goose.