No Wait It Goes Like This
Copyright 2002 Stan Lyness
Again I've been bypassed for Laureate,
my poems denied their due glory yet,
outmetered, outrhymed by somebody who
is my equal in verse - but is funny too.
Funny? It's funny you bastards want,
you Almighty Poets' Establishment?
If laurels reward jocularity,
just listen! I'll give you hilarity:
This fellow walks into a barroom
with a teddy bear perched on his forearm
and - you haven't heard this one already? -
and he says - the guy not the teddy -
says "My life is so empty and meaningless I'm
only able to deaden the pain for a time
when I force vapid verses and vacuous prose."
No, wait, that's not how it goes.
