Sunday, April 03, 2011

How To Judge a Poet

When you meet a poet
outside G&L's in Muskegon, Michigan,
where all the poets eat
the best goddamn chili dogs
anyone has ever had,

do as all the people do,
and say: Hey, what's up, dude?

If that fuckin' poet don't say,
Sister, I got just the song for you
right here in my back pocket
--
and whip out one hell of a song --

if that poet don't do that,
fuck him or her
and the horse they rode in on.

They ain't worth the chili dog
they just ate.

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