[pmoriarty]

You might get some takers if you did it in a college town, but as you probably know poetry is not exactly the hottest selling genre of literature... and finding people that read at all is hard enough.

You'd probably have a much easier time offering to write dirty jokes.. or juggling.

What people want on the streets is a spectacle... the louder and more garish the better.

[Jun8]

I hear you; however, one rarely gets a literary piece, let alone poetry, created specifically for them. To His Coy Mistress may sound formulaic and drab, but what if you are Mary Villiers, who Marvell was tutoring at the time and probably addressed in the poem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Villiers,_Duchess_of_Buck...)? You probably would view it differently.

[pmoriarty]

Give it a try, and please report back. It'll be interesting to hear what your experience is.

[cosmicglee]

This is a sadly accurate comment. Please pass the hemlock.