Minor Poets/Billy Collins/Does this poem work?

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Poets don't read poetry in the same way critics who can't write poetry read. But the critics have the numbers, and nowadays the influence. We live in logical times. A critic's time. The critics are more read than the poets. But that's because we're also living in cowardly times. People need somebody else's point of view to back up their own. A poet can do just as well completely missing the point of other people's poetry.