O

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Since the only acceptable response to a poem

Is praise

I might as well start out by just basking in the glory

Of my poetic prowess

//

Wow !

Feels good !

//

**** !

Why waste my time even writing the

**** thing ?

•

No one else seems to make any effort to be clear

But then

What difference does it make

Since quality has been deemed irrelevant

In our meaningless society

And our self - aggrandizing moral stupor !

•

The NEW WAVE poetry

Has become the

MAKE NO WAVES poetry

And we the poets

Of the

IGNORANCE IS BLISS

social order

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Congratulations !

••

We have degraded poetry

And art

And love

And life itself

To preserve our egos

••

Feels great !

( less filling ! )

""

So

Thanks for the praise my fellow poets

With our actual real lack of support

For each other

Seeped in the pretensions of

Our phony insightfulness

I feel well equipped now

To live a life of imaginary happiness

And fake love

•

Thank you thank you

YOU'RE TRULY WELCOME