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hallawayjoe Andyland 2006-09-06 6:46 PM new slam poem Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (0) |
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So you're a slam poet my family asks me... when you're gonna be on Def Comedy Jam... I'm sure this has happened to some of you? Your worth as a human being determined on whether or not you get your 3 minutes of fame? So... How come you aren't on HBO? to which I reply... Fie! Fie! Fie Hey dingalings, I have cockels and musssels alive alive oh... Charles Atlas Holding up the world like a medicine ball ball ball ball ball of confusion, that 's what the world is today, hey hey. To which They reply with blank stares... HUH? When are you gonna get published and win the nobel prize? I hear the demons chanting... But MC Emily Dickinson says Publication is the auction of the mind of man..... Poet is not a career choice, nor is it a competition. If you are a writer... you simply must WRITE! No one may ever even read it, save for the dust mites on your skin, and the cockroaches in the cracks of your walls, Paul Simon knew the sound of Silence, intimately and so will you! but the words will become something tangible... something you painfully created.with the arthritic blood in your weary fingers... but Poets... when was the last time you had to die for your art? We are ignored, unpaid, some of us can't even get laid, Okay... just me, but so what... we aren't being thrown up against the walls and shot.... Yet... Give us time. But step back from the Earth everyone, viddy the Big Blue Marble with milky swirls. Step back even further and realize we are a lonely pebble floating in a cosmic ocean according to MC Carl Sagan. We are all so fucking insignificant.... God's Dandruff. So if you think what I do is meaningless dribble, that I will not deny, but eat, drink, and be merry, family, and here's mud in your eye. |
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