Congress has outlawed rhyming because it puts too much pressure on kids. Free verse has replaced it. Poets are shocked. This will put many of them on the unemployment line. Many may try in desperation to write prose. Open mikes will consist of pitchy singers and bad comics. The thrill of rhyming will be forever lost.
A future full of despondent poets sprawled on sidewalks and in alleys, drunk, stoned, useless, is quite possible.
Of course they can resort to flash fiction. God help us.
What we cannot understand is how Congress can ban rhyming and still allow the semi-colon?
If Republicans get elected maybe this law will be repealed.
I would love to end this with a rhyme, but I value my freedom.
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