RKS Poetry Anthology: “Beat up a poet today”

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Beat up a poet today

Butterflies embrace the sky

A God given sunny day and the soul flies high

If this grade 5 rhyme is poetry then certainly something has gone awry

Liquidate this trivial optimism

Viewed through a socially irrelevant mindless prism

Quash this verse

Place it in the next outgoing hearse

Revel in the grandmothers who sigh at the mention of shit and sewer

No reason to put the poet on a skewer

Instead, bombast the demeaning jingoism of the brewer

You complain that poetry is over the head of the masses

You are wrong it is meaningless and beneath them when always enveloped in a rosy hue

Why is there no discussion of sniffing glue or the paying of class dues

Beat up

And thrash the poets of the ivory tower

It’s time they awoke with a cold shower

With the millions that suffer waiting to see the way

While poets ignore the every day

Then let us level them to the floors

These vocabularian whores

Robert K. Stephen

Published by Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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