Best Dissing Poems

(a true story)

“Don’t make me go to Disneyland,” I cried
Fourteen years old with all the angst that brings
They made me go and something in me died
Depressed by all the fake and plastic things
The second time my parents made me go
Was in my twenties, Paris, lucky...

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Why does this resonance of love,
lovely resonance,
feel so complexly complicated
to achieve?

Complicating,
complicit in felt imperfection

While red hot hate
burns resiliently,
remains pure
and uncomplicated,
unnuanced,

Vengeance is Mine!
bright as red anger
smoldering in cold
black coal fear
of perfect disregard,
contempt,
anxious judgment,
shaming blame
unequivocal unilateral conviction

I was right
to never truly love
in that unredeemed 
leftist win/win compassionate
Not...

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What is gained by dissing the president?
Whose role is beyond your understanding
Since you know so little of the broad picture
Or, comprehend the crises he is handling.

Why do we blame any sitting president 
For situations that are beyond his control
While guiding the enormous ship of state
Isn’t...

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Today there's a dissing of Shakespeare
   His penning's dismissed as old-hat
Take time to get know him --
   He's wittier than Dr. Seuss' Cat

Many point to the Merchant of Venice
   To prove he was anti-Semitic
Read Shylock's defense of his profession
...

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