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Old Fashion Poetry

Poem

When a student asks
What should I write? I suggest
There are no rules
Just let it rip
Like the Beatniks did
Remember them?
Not the Beatles, but the Beatniks.


Oh how my mother hated Beatniks
She emphasized both syllables
beat' • nik' 
Spit the words out like
Spoiled chicken from the trash
Beatniks write junk
They call this garbage poemsi
They smoke reefer 
Drink coffee
In dark dingy dens 
Subversive
Bohemians, Socialists who 
Don’t go to church 
Wash their hands, brush their teeth
It’s frightening, she said.
Beatniks write 
Anarchy lines that don’t even rhyme. 
We should pass a law against Beatniks
A decree banning poets except
Elizabeth and Robert 
Browning
Arrest Ginsberg 
Ban Kerouac
Squelch this rebellion and
Rule in convention 
Before poetry becomes 
Unstoppable.


© Susan Reuling Furness 
03/11/03 R-9/15/05

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