The Windup Poem

The Windup Poem

Trying to please,whaddya do?
Write in rhyme and metre too?
"It's purely a personal thing", you say
but should we really be going this way?

Styles can disclose the writer's age

Words: all neatly set out on the page
Words: in columns triangles and squares
Words: that go from here to there
Words: from the Rebels Rappers and Beats
Words: from the margins cities and streets

Poetry: done in auto format
Poetry: from a lonely bedsit flat
Poetry: incendiary /in yer face
Poetry: improvised /all over the place
Poetry: that grabs you by the neck
Poetry:screeds of words by a guy called Beck

How do I please them/do the right thing?
do I set out/ to alienate them?
With rap crap and two spoken rambles
maybe that's taking a bit of a gamble

Soap celebrities throwing back booze
Cocaine nosed newshounds snorting up news

bodily functions and body parts
pissing /puking/ breasts and hearts

I could put on accents/that would be good
"Yo homeboy, respect in the 'hood"
Downtown L.A./Midtown New Yawk
Irish/Glaswegian/d'you think it would work?

Really
it's
up
to
me
what
I
do

Nobody can tell me
So there........!!!