The emancipation of poetry

William Burroughs makes an interesting point about poetry in "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin". He announces that poetry and all prose is really constructed of cut-ups of words. This is true in life, as what we do when we speak, compose an essay, interpret a speech, is extricate words from the number of articles that we collect in our memories and reconstruct them in a manner that gives them meaning, at least to us. By doing this, he, like Tristan Tzara, allows poetry to be accessible for everyone. He emancipates poetry. Poetry is for everyone. The downside of this realization is that the value of poetry may decrease in value to some. "Poetry is for everyone", Tzara said... and chaos ensued. Poetry in its traditional form, was not meant to be accessible to the public. It was the art form of the "educated", of the bourgeois. To pluck it from this exclusive market and make it available to the masses would be to renounce it as an art form. Or some may think.