Very few of even their own children have any contact with verse. "There's no money in poetry, and making a living comes first," says Tsai Chiu-chin, executive director of the Taipei Poets Reciting Association, giving voice to what many others know in their hearts.
不說別人，他們自己的兒女都很少接觸詩，「作詩不會賺錢沒有用，生活打拚比較重要」，「台北詩人聯吟會」的執行長蔡秋金道出大家的心聲。