One test of a good poem is that it is as current as the latest fad or frenzy and yet could be understood as wonderful and ‘current’ in 100 or 500 years.
“All my books are little toolboxes. If people want to pen them, to use this sentence or that idea as a screwdriver or spanner to short-circuit, discredit systems of power, including eventually those from which my books emerged… so much the better.”
Michel Foucault