Asking for feedback!

I'm toying with voice recording some of my poetry (as GudKarma has done in leading the way) to include here aside of its blog-written form.

But I don't have a sound studio! lol

So before I go off with any elaborate designs, I'd appreciate just a little feedback on the recording of a recent poem I posted:

1) Is the recording clear enough to understand?

2) Is the background noise too distracting?

3) If I were a silent film actor at the turn of last century, would I have lost my job with the arrival of "talkies"?

4) Does the embedded player even play back in a timely fashion (bandwidth issue)?

So here's the voice link:

I need you...