Poetry Slams
Were a cynical and vulgar attempt
Gregory Corso - the great Beat Poet
Once telling me
He had dropped
In Boulder, Colorado
he told poet Lewis MacAdams
Were a cynical and vulgar attempt
to monetize Poetry
By promoters
who could barely
produce poesy
Gregory Corso - the great Beat Poet
(drunk and sucked into this sideshow)
lost a "Slam"
to a shipping clerk
who ranted about Poe's Raven and Coleridge's Albatross
having read neither
since grammar school.
Once telling me
that he never read Poetry
only Carlos Castaneda
and Ed
He had dropped
his jeans for a priest one day
when he was 20 years old
to see if he was Gay.
In Boulder, Colorado
at the 25th anniversary
of the publication of "On The Road"
he told poet Lewis MacAdams
that his major interest in 1957
when Jack Kerouac's novel was published
was Mousketeers Annette's
pubescent tits.
