Kept in this petri dish study
Will inflate as leavening
Fed by the slightest bit of sweetness
Raising a mass of simple ingredients
Towards the goal of something
Which could be enjoyed by all
Yet inevitably gets punched down
To the same level from which it started
That same chronic level of Spartan compliance
Baked into commercial goods
Shunned by artisans
Who starve in their isolation
By way of insisting on finer and finer
Focus to delight those imagined few
Who might notice or care
An audience of one or two fair
Resulting in sarcasm
Unwilling to entertain or dare.
-Kelly Voelker
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