Now I'm a Big Poetry Guy

I once disliked poetry worse than math going back further – than taking a bath Shelley was for sissies and so was Blake reading their verse was a king-size headache But then along came Eldridge Cleaver, a real man’s man his poetry faced down ‘whitey’ and the Ku Klux Klan Poems came alive for me then, I read Castro and Che Lenin and Stalin, Ayn Rand and Zane Zen So now you know why I’m a big poetry guy I can write about why civilization deserves to die ~ and no one ever asks why