You are free to shoot
fair words on
unjustice... but not free
to shoot bellicose artifacts
mortals...!
You are free to drop
prejudices for life...
but not to plunder
the consecrated
and concentrate history...
We must shelter the works
of our splendid artists!
Not general anti-democracy,
no total obscurantism!
Anomie, no!
Coup, no!
The shadows of obscurantism
watch over our darkness
no clarity, no inspiration
Selfish and barbaric,
wrong and stupid
the one who only supplies
of himself thinking
conceive of everything... !
How little is it
this ideologic stature,
how is it phenomenal
this obscurantism... !
I Hate Poetry
I really dislike poetry
certainly and honestly do
deliberate obscurantism
damn words, don't you know
whinging exultations
agonising extremes
low language of life
love and loss themes
free verse especially
a cop out I'd suspect
debility of mind
the dearth of intellect
why even bother
you depressive waste of time
we have all loved or lost
so cease your spurious crying
speak thee in happy note
flowers and flutter bys
warming sun on warming limbs
smiles and morning skies
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