Poetic & Spiritual Delinquency in the Modern Age

Poetry is a funny little thing
 
it seldom pays the rent
 
and at it’s best it’s nothing
more than a broken-glass lullaby
 
an atomic rat-trap
something like a sup-prime rose
a thorny siren’s tongue and an expensive flat-tire
 
and what makes it funny is,
 
there’s a lot of people that write it
and there’s a lot of bad poetry
 
most of it nickle-plated, dime-store garble
 
paper-back tricks and clever word games
 
simply, nothing special
 
poisonous, maybe pretty, if you have shit for brains,
 
but it keeps them coming back,
 
poets, loyal like a codependent girlfriend who
you once gave cocaine to
 
or a zealot,
or a roman,
a christian, a jew, a diamond dog
 
chasing tails, chasing cars, chasing funny little words
 
laughing and
lauhging

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