Poetry Contests

We don't need no stinking poetry contests with criteria and requests sending us on a quest to try to test who's best, it's a con test, conning contestants like peasants or towards a trap like a pest, infecting us with influenza if we're honest. Biased decisions influenced by "isms" put strangers and friends into final positions. When they were host you were first passed the post, so now when you host all but them are a ghost. The bureaucratic system that rates us, like like for like likes on a Facebook status. And there are no strangers to these exchanges as the system never changes, it's the same through the ages. A favour for a favour and different favours have ranges. It's appalling and full of boredom, yet they reward them, and make a record on a list, a recorder, this whole contest is out of order! The first entry and the last entry are inevitably weeks apart, so when they eventually take part, events have seen them invent from a spark off your art. What a farce! Why not compare farts or pushing shopping carts? I aint drinking to no stinking contest, it better be wearing a bullet proof vest, 'cus my gun will cause a sinking and a final place to rest. We don't need no stinking poetry contest!!