Kenneth Patchen




I GOT THE FAT POET INTO A CORNER and told
him he was writing s—t and couldn’t get away
with it

Now, it is night and time
for sleep. Everyone is
tired

from garbage-glutting
lifting their snouts
from the trough
long enough
to ease their gut —
I won’t urge the point.

Gold-plated poems
to stuff up
their mind’s ass

or politics
watered down so as
not to scare the blue bloods
Boo! you well-fed bastards