Sounds can't smile
Music seldom moves and words don't dance
You poets
Blaggards of a sound bite chance
Feigning high art like a cheap romance
The world spins to utility not vanity
So let's have it straight
Drop the diction profanity and pull your weight
At the very thought of real work - the kind that puts food on the table
You break out in sweats and weave up some love lorn fable
Like you invented rhyme
It's not cool
Your average joe was rhyming for kicks at pre-school
You're compensating for loss - I get it
Maybe there is some truth in the shape of words
Poetic sounds much like pathetic
Most honest folk are too busy to mind
But then your smug smile kicks in like we're all groping round in the dark
And you're lit up like Joan of Arc
It's at this point we condemn your metaphorical 'gift' to the literal dustbin
Misunderstood ?
Miss Underwood, my daughters monotone class assistant from KeyStage 2 is more gifted than you when she calls the register
At least she's not scheming for assonance, dud lit cross-references and deeper meaning
Get my gist, huh?
All of you, sad kids on the block
Artisan is street slang for dole house rock
I wouldn't mind but I just knocked this up while cooking dinner for the kids, babysitting, pressing some shirts and bringing the washing in
The wife's working late and I have some accounts to do
Anyone can poet with one hand tied back and you know it's all over
So go home, re-plug the phone, bin the Chekhov plays and the Pinter scripts and work on your social skills
Poetry filed for Chapter Eleven
Prose pays the bills
Music seldom moves and words don't dance
You poets
Blaggards of a sound bite chance
Feigning high art like a cheap romance
The world spins to utility not vanity
So let's have it straight
Drop the diction profanity and pull your weight
At the very thought of real work - the kind that puts food on the table
You break out in sweats and weave up some love lorn fable
Like you invented rhyme
It's not cool
Your average joe was rhyming for kicks at pre-school
You're compensating for loss - I get it
Maybe there is some truth in the shape of words
Poetic sounds much like pathetic
Most honest folk are too busy to mind
But then your smug smile kicks in like we're all groping round in the dark
And you're lit up like Joan of Arc
It's at this point we condemn your metaphorical 'gift' to the literal dustbin
Misunderstood ?
Miss Underwood, my daughters monotone class assistant from KeyStage 2 is more gifted than you when she calls the register
At least she's not scheming for assonance, dud lit cross-references and deeper meaning
Get my gist, huh?
All of you, sad kids on the block
Artisan is street slang for dole house rock
I wouldn't mind but I just knocked this up while cooking dinner for the kids, babysitting, pressing some shirts and bringing the washing in
The wife's working late and I have some accounts to do
Anyone can poet with one hand tied back and you know it's all over
So go home, re-plug the phone, bin the Chekhov plays and the Pinter scripts and work on your social skills
Poetry filed for Chapter Eleven
Prose pays the bills
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