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move with the Times
onwards and downwards
to the willing street
the concrete sublime
yesterday's paper
wraps today's fish
in storm drains of slam
show casers are serious
no bullshit
no sissy lines
just 'cause it's poetry
keep the 'p' lower case
'cause we now know
the chemistry
specific weight of lead
the disease in the blood
no longer fooled by glitter
of golden rhymes
pretentious alchemy
of Chaucer's earthy pilgrims
galvanized into stellar silver
on reserve
for the dedicated dead
2
time for the body
to educate instead
level lofty truth with facts
knowledge contracts
in muscle excretes
in glands knows
too much about silicon
to flutter over tints
of Venetian glass
genome mapped
too close to adorn
lines with vocabulary
too far removed
from grunts
orgasm squeals
farmyard stats
graduate
to the masses' class
feed it fast
like a burger deal
keep it simple
as sausage n' egg
3
words are clear
as rainbow shifting
shards of glass
clarity is for math
precision relative
simple is for the held back
and the mentally impaired
nature ain't and Mozart
deceives inbred aristocrats
I mean to blaspheme
with the word beauty
I mean to incarnate her
in every sense and sentence
I mean to blossom a lexicon
like a German garden
and cross pollinate hybrid
orchards of metaphor
I mean my meaning
not just to be adorned
but to have form
fuller than a training bra
I mean to have a striptease
of so much articulate flesh
as to get arrested in public
copyright 2004
Ray
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