Does poetry need better PR?

Stan Apps, in the current issue of ACTION YES, solves contemporary poetry's problem:

If poetry had some cartoon animals to speak for it and tell people what to do (such as a poetry monkey that said, “Oot, oot, oot, buy Poetry! Poetry is for kids!” and then a nasty snake covered with glowing slime took the poetry and rubbed slime on it and then the poetry monkey grabbed the poetry back and swung away on the vine and then cleaned all the poetry back up really carefully with tissues and then read haiku that were printed on the tissues and the haiku on the tissues told you to buy poetry—that probably wouldn’t work, but it would be a start and you could show it to a test audience and begin exploring a real future for poetry . . .