Critics Manufacture A Famine

[Leanne]

No, the closing lines make perfect sense. The problem I'm having with it is that the first stanza is held together very nicely, then you throw in Dada and you can't just throw in Dada and go on writing the poem people expect you to write. Then you have bards barred, and that's the punchline of a fairly tired joke with a number of variations, e.g. Shakespeare walks into a pub; the landlord says, "get out, you're bard".

So it's not the last lines that are the problem, it's the two preceding that shift the poem to a very uncomfortable position.