that poetry

    evoking acerbic memories
of sweating in a desk at school
reading ye olde english poems
in a classroom under roman rule

allusions across the palette
and writing essays on single stanzas

deep
deeper
snooze fest

nodding off to Elizabethan sonnets
& kipping through Victorian elegies
with Eminem blaring through earphones
rapping hip modern lingo.

Leonardo played Romeo
either Di Vinci
or Di Caprico
for all i know the ninja turtle.

60's sunglasses Dylan
with his
sharp witted
politically satirical songs
backed by harmonica
scatters the crowd
stinking up the room with sarcastic views.

we want artists
depressed
and on xanax
mumbling and grunting
(subtitles read 'inaudible')
sporting face tattoos
lifted out of a colouring book

money
cars
jewelry

gangs
guns
drugs

reality    meets    tomfoolery

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newspaper printing machine
in your pockets
shoving vibrating headlines
in your faces every minute

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detached monk
who sold his fiat
living on rain water
grubs and beetles.

Charles Blondin would fall
from that tightrope
slippery slope
                        slinging
religion
reality tv
& pornography

fighting dirty
                        techniques
rope-a-dope
choke-holds
& undertakers tombstone

jokes
(legal disclaimer
feeble waiver)

t&c's will get ya.