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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

Copyright © Gershon Wolf

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