People's Poet

The idea of the People's Poet was such a great thing. A poet who traveled around from town to town and wrote about the times he lived in and the people he met. People got to know the poet on a personal level and for only a few dollars that his books cost.
So what put an end to the People's Poet was more and more people using and getting their information from the Internet, Facebook and Blogspots. People in this day and age seem to prefer to deal with people on a more impersonal level. Maybe they don't like to see the naked body or the ass or anything else in the flesh and human. Who knows.
Just as in the age of the arm chair politician who spent all his time in the bars talking about all his great ideas so now we have arm chair writers. They spend all their time in a chair spending hours writing about all the things that only relate to themselves. As the People's Poet disappears all we are left with is a sick society that has lost all contact with reality.