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Poetrygate
Stands at the podium
Wearing standard police-issue
Innocence. Some species of
Fish and aquatic life haven't
Had a clean drink of water
In 150 years. Who wrote
All these laws unleashed
Like pre-emptive strikes against
The poor and working class?
Poetrygate has also assisted
With the socioeconomic
Profiling helping to filter out
The most capable social justice
Applicants. Place this end of
The innocence up! Do not
Double stack the denial!
Please align all carton corners
With compatible carrier
Products. Has someone
Packed enough beauty for
The great metal and mercantile
Migration of the twenty-first
Century? Already the politicans
Are enjoying unparalled access
To the paper shredders of impropriety.
Does anyone care if there is
A parental advisory sticker on
My pro-perch and populist poetry?
Is poetrygate just another
International internet and
Auditorium scandal that nobody
Cares about? I just wanted to
Say that while some environmental
Editor sorts this out-I'm going
To send out for some roasted
Cauliflower with black olives; of course,
I'd like a bottle of Clos de la
Roche in a bali turquoise bucket
Of ice for later. Poetry has to
Often become beauty turned
In on itself while beauty in the
Natural world shrinks in the new
Ecological reductionism of global
Profits. Report all visible damage to
Your local carrier. Report all hidden
Environmental damage to the
Obscure subcommittee of silence
In charge of global diversions. Take
Advantage of the all you can eat,
Outsource, and import for only
Two species lost today. Even as
I write former President Jimmy
Carter is in Plains, Georgia at his
International world peace center
Passing out honey roasted peanuts
To any ear that will listen. I sure
Hope that some poets somewhere
Become truth's wood boring beetles
Capable of seeing beauty isolated
As often wearing the ankle bracelet
Of corporate expectations. I sure
Hope that some poets somewhere
Will open up the inner spirits
Internal affairs division. And
I really hope that some very capable
People everywhere can see that
There is a future in seeing that
Beauty and truth come together
Like intergalactic binoculars of
Much merit-helping others to
See the interconnectedness
Of seemingly unrelated things.