Slapstick

11/05 – some call me Polly Anna, because I am still an optimist – it’s only a part-time avocation

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Buster Keaton turned slapstick into an art form,

Excuse me while I go hurt myself and

Try to walk away oblivious to pain

Humor is only allowed, if you laugh at yourself

Just another form of angst poetry,

But without judges and cash prizes

We go to university lectures – listen to talking heads

Tell us what is and isn’t acceptable humor

How we need to stop laughing at pain

Maybe they need to leave their tenured cloister

Quit preaching to impressional young students

About the value of an advanced degree that won’t cover debt service

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Maybe, I’ll write an elegy for the dead unborn and

The denial of history paid for by the wealthy

Spare me my self-righteous indignation

As I swing upside down suspended in air on a trapeze

Circus entertainment for the leisure class

Who hand out grants – every dollar with their name on it

Expecting gratitude from politicians and arts organizations

For the return of a portion of taxes they do not pay

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