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[ On Poetry ] The Last In Line

   
Are your royalties that abundant    
you can afford to be redundant?    
Bland verse, uninspired    
How original; flat tired    
Poeticism parked on cinder blocks    
going furiously nowhere fast    
Forcing rhyme; killing time  
clocks throw hands up in despair    
You phone it in here and there    
with another predictable line    
recycling the same old format    
We see where your head is at;    
where the sun refuses to shine    
Ground breaking going on inside  
but out here?    
You're the last in line    
   
Yeah    
   
Would you ever take the risk    
to write something  
vibrant, cutting, brisk    
That you label yourself contemporary    
when you're nothing short of fucking lazy    
is a joke without a punch line;    
your production line mentality    
All the while you bitch and whine    
about this poser, that wannabee    
Time to look at yourself in the mirror -   
is this message getting any clearer?    
Take it as a sign:    
it's all in your mind    
but out here?    
You're the last in line    
   
Listen    
   
You never had a clue    
regarding what it meant to be a poet    
If one bit you in the ass    
you wouldn't have ever known it    
Starting right now    
write us a heartwarming love sonnet;    
scratch out another broken record    
Don't be shy -   
sit and spin upon it    
   
You take great pleasure as you flame    
to cover your own attempts so lame    
Botched batch of cookie cutter rhymes    
How innovative, tame    
Rape your own library a thousand times    
Attach the same fugly  
mug shot of a shame in frame    
What a sham    
Here the only scam    
is your rise to poetic fame    
Guess you thought it was    
the thought that counts    
but now that you're caught?  
It's time to bounce    
your ass back to where you belong    
where you've been all along -    
right back there ...  
at the end of the line    
   
You're the last in line  
   
 
Written by Magnetron
Published | Edited 14th Jul 2020
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