Anathema or Assonance
A Plutonian plutocracy, a demonized democracy,
A hierarchical semi-aristocracy, based on modern social mockeries
A simple-minded symphony, a piffling epiphany,
A list of toppled emperors, potentates and powers
A roll of groveling sycophants, toadies, scrapers and bowers.
An underhanded underworld, an openhanded wonderworld,
An undistinguished painter in a gallery of art
An easel aesily destroyed, a mound of clay so simply cloyed,
An unrefining democrat who will not play his part
An ode we threw together and together through the ether hurled.
A cavalier cacophony, a badly botched lobotomy,
A pathetic piece of poetry, no metric regularity
Please bury this poem it reeks of sheer stupidity!
Try and do better yourself, assuming your statement has some validity
But if you have to criticise, at least eschew vulgarity
A gargantuan phallic obelisk, a tower of worship,
An understated overrated symbol of our doom
A copper-plated weftlet that shuttles from the loom
A complicated warplet that shimmers in the gloom
the trimming on a handle on a door without a room
| Contributors: | Teresa Incognita, Del Playa Debaucher, Grayman, The Agent Apsley, Gren, Bop's issue, Lady Lillian, TG, El Tel, fevvers. |
| Poem finished: | 23rd September 1999. |