Just Another Bad Poem

Just another bad poem


Picture the subject.
A mug shot of a poem
that went terribly wrong.
Who is really to blame
for its coughed up fabrications
and bits of hoaxes?
At 10 it was discovered
fondling imaginary landscapes.
At 15 it was accused
of putting to the torch
a party of harmless
adjectives. At 23
it was jailed for smothering
Crater Lake with rhymes.
A mongrel of a gargoyle
it survived for years
by defrauding gullible
English departments.
At 28 it was sent
to sing up the big river
for stealing petty change
from the pockets of elderly
performance poets.
Who is to blame now
that it's back on the streets.
More dangerous than ever.


Scott Malby

Posted over on Ken Again