Commentary On "The Great God Time" & ". . . put a toast in it"

Both these poems were published at the same time in Not Your Average Zine.  I smiled when I pulled the old copy of this off the shelf where it has been gathering dust in the pile.  On the cover is an old Peanuts cartoon.  Sally walks up to Charlie Brown and asks, "We've been reading poems in school, but I never understand any of them."  She continues, "How am I suppose to know which poems to like?"  Charlie Brown answers, "Somebody tells you."

I sometimes wonder after years of reading and writing poetry, etc., if this is not true.  Are the good ones only good because somebody told me?