Wednesday, March 24, 2010

How to write modern poetry

You first need the feel, for the perfect brew,
kill all the happiness, before you let the words stew.

Rake up your past, for the bad moments you've had
for writing modern poetry, you need to be really sad.

If you've sinned - that's good, had a girlfriend - better,
write only when you're high or drunk, remember every letter.

Frustration is a necessity, depression an added advantage,
you should have suffered, that's the adage.

Now you have the feel, let me expound on style,
it has to be very very dark, the vocabulary vile.

Shit, fuck, bitch, fill it up with abuses
frustration ensures you find multiple uses

Shun structure, coherence, should be rife with grime
never write in verse, for there ain't a bigger crime.

you get all this correct, and the content doesn't matter
for all I care, get it written by the Mad Hatter

That's the feel, the style - content, and a promise of flattery
there you have it - the manual for writing modern poetry.

Appendix - I

Modern poems are best left unnamed,
but if there is some credit to be claimed,
then here are some naming rules,
and a few random name pools.

make it as arbitary as possible,
lose the words, just make it audible,
call it - fussss, baaraaooom, blam
cough, hack, drool, they love it at the slam.

or make it descriptive like hell,
*pointer- they really sell,
Like, an ode to the third turd in the pot,
or the aroma when the dead rats rot.

So, I guess you've learnt, the mane of a modern 'Pome'
just don't mention me, when you bring your laurels home.

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