[ Poet Tributes ] Poets gone rogue

---at othertimes
gone quite tame---  
---even to the point of lame;  
allow me to digress  
  
Streamed consciousness  
at the table --- we pen its flow;  
whatever dreamed manifests  
is quantified as poetry, although    
   
what is it really?  
Your guess  
is as good as mine  
   
but this you must know:    
your interpretations  
will do just fine  
   
From their vinegar  
just keep wine making  
   
assign meaning to any bodily  
bearing, every summarily snaking  
   
and regarding pelican, fox, otter  
stag, wren ---- from your own    
process of association grab-bag  
draw whatever conclusion when  
the dog you are isn't thrown a bone  
   
And if it so happens  
   
[ or if shit happens ]  
   
[ [ whichever happens first ] ]  
   
that out from a quote unquote poet's  
ass suddenly does burst a wild god    
in a rush to be heard?  
   
Do not believe a word said  
   
Instead, usher it    
straight to the nearest  
porcelain throne exit    
and be sure to do us  
a courtesy flush