Someday I’ll be the featured poet
Not relegated to cattle calls but given top billing
Even though half the audience will bleed away at the break
Narcissistic preeners who have no interest in anyone who might shatter their self image
So good riddance
The crowd that stays knows quality when they hear it
See it
They’ll table thump and shout out the next line that they’ve learnt from Youtube
Where I’ve gone gangnam viral
I’ll let my words spill over the room like the best orgasm I’ve ever had
There’ll be a roomful of nodding heads
Mouths slackjawed open swallowing every word
While I let the stains soak into sheets of pure white paper
I’ll joke about the last award I never got
Or some festival in an exotic location like Drumheller
Where there was a festschrift to dinosaurs to die for
So I wrote an ode to albertasaurus that reanimated the fossilized remains
Thereby causing the death of a dozen poets and fans
At the point of a sharp toothed grin of a hungry Barney
Who was only penned in by a hundred rhyming couplets
Which refossilized the brute
Then I’d crack open another book and the words will self combust
Singing my lips as they burn ears
Carpet bombing the room with thoughts that might be the child
The child that Rumi would have had with Isadora Duncan
Living model homed on Tralfamadore
In another parallel universe
The next one over from the one where I’m the featured poet
David Trudel © 2013
Fantastic!! 🙂 Love it!!!
Thanks, happy you found me!
David, THIS, this is amazing! You should be viral (in the you-tube sense). Keep them coming like this, and you will be.
Thanks Susan. I am humbled by the talent here in my local community and throughout the world. This is very much a tongue in cheek expression of my envy of other incredible poets. (Like you, for one!)
David–than envy is something I possess where you are concerned, too!