Shitty Poets

Pseudo-Intellectual Poets Bring Tears (of Boredom) to my Eyes

Last week I ventured down to Milwaukee to see my step-sister do a poetry read. She was the featured poet (headliner) for the night and it was open mic night before she went on. Having never been at a poetry read before (and half expecting it to be as exciting as a funeral narrated by Larry King) I didn't know what I was in for. The stereotypical poetry read features beatniks beating off on bongos spouting lines about "Mother Earth being raped" and the like. This was not the case at Tai Joe's bar in Milwaukee. It turned out to be a pretty kick-ass night. Once I learned about open mic night, I damned myself for not bringing any poetry. I had planned to bring some to show to my sister but was too lazy to get it out of my closet. I was really determined to be on stage though so I borrowed my sister's notebook and began to write. I had half an hour to come up with 5 minutes worth of material. I cranked out 2 poems in that time, and I was set. One of them goes as follows:

Take a Look at Me

Take a look at me and judge who I am
A long-haired punk doing the worst I can
Frown on me, this adolescent scum
Now open your eyes to how blind you've become
There's more to me than what is my image
But you think you know me in less than a minute
I dress all in black and worship the devil
I'll pre-judge you too to sink to your level
Damn me, my friends and our rock music
Just find us any drug and we'll use it
Well look at you, unmarried with 13 kids
Don't try to tell me what my self-concept is
I dress and I act just to please myself
It's sad that your life's run by everyone else
Take a look at me and judge who I am
I'll shrug it off as quick as I can

About half the poets were kick-ass, and I was well received too. I was told by the guy running it to come back tomorrow (2/15) and read again . These other poets (my sister included) spoke exactly the kind of words that would grace this site, ripping on everything from George Bush fucking up his speeches to Reality TV. The words I heard brought a grin to my face that only seeing a deer get hit by a semi could bring. Unfortunately, not all of the readers were this talented. There was a good smattering of mind-numbing drones as well. They were the dreaded pseudo-intellectual poets that try to achieve greatness by throwing a bunch of big words together. All you really have to do to be like them is pick the 10 longest words out of the dictionary. Then you put them on a piece of paper and surround them with crafty words about how your life is full of "misery and woe." It ends up being the poetic equivalent of an angry jaguar clawing your dick off but they think it sounds good.

If by some miracle this style of poetry overtakes the cut-the-bullshit style of myself and others, I need to be prepared. I'm going to prepare myself and entertain you all at the same time. What I'm going to do is try my hand at Pseudo-shredded dick poetry and see how it turns out. This first one is going to be about syphilis.

Syphilis, Leave My Ailing Crotch

Staring at the ceiling, divert my attention I try. For the fire in my crotch forces me to cry.
Itch, oh lord how I itch it several times. Bitter consequence, for banging all those mimes.
Black and white-faced, like so much static TV. A few silent hip thrusts beckoned to me.
The mime drew me in, I could not resist. Cursed I am now, with acute syphilis.

The doctor laughed, and prescribed me some crèmes. Now all I see is cute French mimes in my dreams.
The sores sit and stare at me with great content. Now I wonder where my girlfriend went.
What could I do but drag her down with me. I mustn’t be the only one to wince when I pee.
My nutsack feels like a fleshy ball of fire. It also reeks like meat that’s expired.
I would swallow a million aspirin to end it all. I can’t live with rusty nails through each ball.

Why do I deserve this genitalia defecation? Like hanging my scrotum from the tower of a radio station.
A pound of ice sits and cools my poor schlong. I’m on paid vacation from work 4 days long.
I called my boss and told him I had AIDS. He said “Ok, how’s tomorrow, 8:30 , at your place?”
Now that I know about my sick-fuck supervisor, it’s time to file disability and retire.

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Wow, that was grim. Now I'll write one about a subject no one has ever tocuhed before: Not fitting in.

The ballad of a psychosomatic but somewhat optimistic while being overly dreary at the same time teenager

What is it that they don’t like about me? Who really cares if I have fleas?
Just because my mom tried to sell me for crack, doesn’t mean you can’t be kind back.
I try to fit in but all they do is hate. They are just weirded out by the hamster I ate.
Their cuts and insults hurt and sting me like barbs. All of them are getting a dead goat in their yard.

Some people say I cry and some say I whine. You would too with allergies bad as mine.
Allergic to cats, showers, girls and peas. Some bullies once tried to kill me with bees.
I wore and N’Sync shirt once in the seventh grade. My mom said I looked sharp as a blade.
That day I went home with a black eye and 2 broken bones. After that I no longer worshipped Joey Fatone.

Those ingrate peers of mine just don’t understand, how feeble they are when I’m all man.
To them I’m a punching bag and dumpster deposit. To me they’re a target for the A.K. in my closet.
Tomorrow I’ll wear a trench coat to be scary and cool. Then during gym class I’ll pee in the pool.
One of these days I will teach them a lesson. About the stiffy I get while holding my Smith & Wesson.

My step-dad used to beat me with a baseball bat, that’s until I fed my step-sister to my cat.
He scarfed it down like a human Tender Vittles meal. Am I just sick or am I for real?
After that the big jerk quit all his bitchin’. Until I caught him nailing my mom in the kitchen.
Because of that event I’ve become impotent now. Disgusting is an elderly man doing the birthing sow.

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A horrifying insight into the mind of an outcast loser. Could this be you? Could this be me? *Cue chilling organ music*. Our next tale will bring you to the world of your typical dipshit.

Dimwitted, for Her Pleasure
I flirt, show off my ass-crack and am blonde. I'm your typical neighborhood moron.
The words that I speak don’t even exist. Neither do all the cool scars on my wrists.
My strong athlete boyfriend left so woe is me. But come on boys, this vagina is free.
My paltry IQ won’t ever lead to success. It’s lucky that I have big perky breasts.

I’ll end up as some slut corporate secretary. When I turn 19 I’ll be getting married.
Shooting out a bunch of kids will be my new hobby. If I happened to live in China they’d stop me.
But I’m an American idiotic cuntasaur, pictured in the dictionary next to the word whore.
Comfortable with the dirt I permeate, to sleep with me get in line and wait.

To your right is the grand canyon so take a snap-shot. Wait a second, that’s the size of my twat.
I cannot regurgitate who the first president is. But I can survive on a diet of jizz.
I’m known round the world for my promiscuous behavior. I’m also quite sure Joe Millionaire’s our savior.
Get a beer in me and I’m everyone’s best friend. No abacus can count the ways I can bend.

If you should need me, I’ll be shopping at Abercrombie. 500 dollars for a shirt, you can’t top it.
I’m so lucky my rich parents will buy me things. They even bought me these nipple rings.
Now I will have the perfect excuse to show them off. This will exuberate the guys paying a quarter for my bra.
Someday I truly hope to be raped by Kobe Bryant. Then the lawyer down the road will have a new client.

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Don't we all want to be just like that. Well, I've had enough practice and I think I'm prepared for the worst. All I need to do is think of a trendy catchy name like Dark Ravyn or something stupid like that. After doing this, I'm sure that these people write such things because it's so damn easy. As long as you look like the most tortured soul on the planet, you're on the gravy train. It sure is fun making a mockery of other people's incompetence. I should start a website about that or something.

Pseudo-intellectuals have tried to tell me of their plight but have been ignored instead.

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