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Eric J. Swanger
poetry is in the mode of
ignorance
and
once this is proven
it will be a good argument
for
all night coffee shops
for millions to again write
and stay awake with works
now it is all degraded
bagel shops opening at 6am
for yuppy business men
with attaches and laptops
to pound
pound
pound
for eternty never long enough
bringing home to work
and work to home
and everything to the
6am bagel shop
for the generation x kids
to mumble and fidget
over poor excuses for poetry
and music merchandised
for the masses
like the alice coopers
of the 90#8217;s
starved for revolution
but too lazy to
turn off mtv
for the gothic vampires
to moan and wale
over high-price pastry
about how many times
they#8217;ve committed suicide
since undertaking this latest
trend
to exchange even poorer
excuses for poetry and bad music
to convince themselves they are
eternal
to be mournful because of the
uncertainty of uneventfulness
and to return promptly home
for their 10pm curfew
to the comfort of normality
and to parental misgivings
and misunderstandings
but at least there is a juice bar
w/ 7 different kinds
of vegetable juice
and for the teenagers of normality
content to grown into the
shoes of their parents
to inherit dogs and minivans and
white fences around in-ground pools
and the lawn mower
never even once dreaming
of freedom from
birth death disease&old age
and forever unhappy for never
dreaming dreaming
it is for the million voices of
bad poetry
to write down
but never truthfully write
a million voices
turning where ever they are
into the tower of babble
to continue on through the
afternoon afterschool
until closing
to return home
for 10 o#8217;clock curfews
and
abusive apathetic wives
but i will not waist my mornings
and afternoons
bleating trumpets
marching seven times around
the walls of
the six am bagel shop
to see if they will fall:
i know they will not
they will stand forever
as a reminder of our
uncultured
culture
cult
they will stand forever
as monuments of
everything we did not want
to lose
but lost because
we were too lazy to keep it
they will stand forever
next to wal-marts
chain bagel shops
from sea to shining sea
run not by poets or punks
but by executives
and ceo#8217;s who
hated coffee houses
who
hated poetry
and
hated poets
who traded their bellbottoms
and sandals
for dress slacks and penny loafers
when the money was right
who opened 6am bagel shops
all across this great
land of opportunities
and will close the
promptly when the
trend dictates
6am bagel shop is not for the
poet who craves the fix
of the all night coffee house
it is not for the real dreamers
of the dream of self-revolution
it is not for me
as sometimes i have
more to say after
10pm
is not for me
as the company is
hard to keep
and unappreciative
the 6am bagel shop
is not for me
as it is about nothing
more than bagels
and bagels don#8217;t change the world
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