3 Minutes, 3 Parodies
I hope this post won’t come off as mean-spirited. My targets are not all free verse poets but rather those free verse poets who– without knowing much about formal meter or literary history and conventions– write off all formal verse as old fashioned. These parodies are supposed to be fun… feel free to laugh at them or to ignore them, but please do not become upset;)
I.
Papercut-thin
slicing my soul
each time she looks me in the eyes
and punctures my mouth with
swords of whore rebel dragon
tongue.
II.
Those wide-eyed youths
thinking they’ve earned life experience
with their passing knowledge of Hume, Nietzsche
other heretics I’ll see burning
from the burnished, embroidered
seat inscribed “Righteous prevaileth over skeptics”–
reading they missed when buried
in thin tree remnants
dried cold bits of bark
lacking life
lacking truth
worm-eaten.
I’ll sit
next
to
my
Maker
the Earth’s Maker.
III.
I-Pod Touch Mini
Aural highway exorcising
impious silence
Miscellaneous Inanities 