I Love Rock and Roll
I like my poems short and neat
reading or writing I prefer to be brief.
Some go on and on without relief
meter goes long, I nod off to the beat.
Gilgamesh, the Illiad, Canterbury Tales,
to read them in full you'll hear my wails.
"put another dime in the juke box baby"
"condense, condense, condense"
aren't those the words of Whitman,
so what's up with Leaves of Grass?
That goes on forever, . . . Amen.
But if I could write like that . . .
I'd fill the page with dynamite
and stop rhyming rat-a-tat-tat.
"put another dime in the juke box bab