Poets

Poets
(for Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
"How much more of this do we have to go through?")

Let's see now,
some really tough poetry;
we'll need a few well-placed "cunts"
and a "nigger" or two,
a couple of "fucks" and a sprinkling
of "dark" and maybe a "pain"
with some "nothing" thrown in
and for sure a liberal,
or is it a conservative, few
"releases" or "deaths" or "cums."

We'll need a wash of "lonelys,"
some moral indignation
and train car of insatiables,
and a rat's ass full of "hopes,"
"understandings," and a twist
at the end to make sure no one
saw this coming.

And then all of the insights
and experiences and hideous
moments of life
that we spill out
of course like blood
that is cut with a razor blade
will be gathered at dusk
and printed on flyers
to be read at the reading
held at a bookstore
where everyone will snap their fingers
and have a smoke
and then go home with each other
and note just how awesomely
enigmatic it all was
and how the common mind
is incapable of seeing
the trues of the misery
as seen through the eyes of a poet.

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