POVs: Schneider on Gary Soto

The acidic Schneider (see Cosmoetica for more) doesn't think very highly of Soto...I don't necessarily agree with him but he is pretty funny if annoyingly erm egocentric??!Well anyway, here's what he wrote (on Soto's "How Things Work"):

This is 1 of those damnable poems that I really cannot do alot with, because it is so dull that to invigorate it would require me Schneiderizing the poem too much. Alack, all I can do is stem the boredom with concision:
How Things Work

The tip I left for the waitress filters down
Like a belligerent cat that won't let go
Of a balled sock. As far as I can tell it works like this:
You buy bread from a grocery, a bag of apples
From a fruit stand, and what coins
Are passed on helps others buy pencils, glue,
Tickets to a movie in which laughter
Is thrown into their faces.

A small purchase here and there,
And things just keep going. I guess.

At least I axed the 'roots of a child' trope. The smaller version also flows a bit more, & starts in right away with the motion of things. It's a passable workshop poem now. No, there's not a grand revelation- but, hey- IT'S GARY "FUCKIN'" SOTO! Enough!