POETRY POLICE
the poetry police
is traveling through
my neighborhood
in a big squad car
with sirens
and a giant loudspeaker
on top
the loudspeaker shouts:
IF YOU DON’T WANT YOUR POETRY EDITED,
DON’T SUBMIT TO US!
WE’RE TIRED OF RECEIVING PROSE
IN VERSE FORM!!
WE’RE NOT A VANITY PRESS!!!!
WE DON’T PUBLISH EVERYTHING WE GET!!!!!
IF YOU’RE TALENTED AND WANT TO PUBLISH
SOMETHING BAD ON PURPOSE,
SEND IT TO WERGLE FLOMP INSTEAD!!!!!!
the poetry police
stops its big squad car
at a free verse house
to round up dissenters
and haul them off to poetry jail
where they’ll be detained indefinitely
without trial
to keep my neighborhood
safe and content
so we can avoid
this changing world
and not have to be soiled by
the disgusting degrading decline
in literary standards
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