Tuesday, September 15, 2009
There are Poets Among Us - Beware
There are Poets Among Us – Beware
Gentle ladies, gentle men:
guard well your purses and your tongues,
there are poets among us tonight – beware!
Which is to say there are among us liars,
cut-throats,
fire-brands
and thieves!
Nasty brutish, slouching, wild-eyed misfits, wantons,
ill-dressed anarchists, disturbers and destroyers - poets!
Beware, take heed!
If you value how things are, and lawns all kempt,
the nation’s youth tatooless, lips unpierced and ears
and hair slicked back and shiny teeth -
then fear these poets! Shun them, fear them!
Show them to the dogs, I say!
Gentle ladies, gentle men,
all in ruins lie the nations, cities, Egypt, Athens, Winnipeg and Rome –
and all because they honoured poets!
Guard your purses and your tongues –
the walls have fallen down and poets at the gates!
© Ulrich Wendt, 2008
Gentle ladies, gentle men:
guard well your purses and your tongues,
there are poets among us tonight – beware!
Which is to say there are among us liars,
cut-throats,
fire-brands
and thieves!
Nasty brutish, slouching, wild-eyed misfits, wantons,
ill-dressed anarchists, disturbers and destroyers - poets!
Beware, take heed!
If you value how things are, and lawns all kempt,
the nation’s youth tatooless, lips unpierced and ears
and hair slicked back and shiny teeth -
then fear these poets! Shun them, fear them!
Show them to the dogs, I say!
Gentle ladies, gentle men,
all in ruins lie the nations, cities, Egypt, Athens, Winnipeg and Rome –
and all because they honoured poets!
Guard your purses and your tongues –
the walls have fallen down and poets at the gates!
© Ulrich Wendt, 2008
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