Exposè
Poetry sweats in pits,
comes from Stanley Kowalski's
wife beater tee. Uses brute strength
to back you into a corner
far from your genteel fantasies
where the street reeks and the blood
you smell is your desire, Blanche.
Listen, any poem you see in a tower
is a political prisoner plotting revolution,
knotting sheets to make its escape,
shimmying down the smooth, ivory sides.
Poetry is the beast, academia is the zoo.
Poetry just ain't dainty,
struts around twirling its pasties,
wiggling its bare bottom,
provocative and provoking.
Poetry is an exotic dancer,
bumping and grinding language,
stripping down to the