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POETRY DJ



Okay, crew, a REAL poet
just bopped into your face
'cause that Milton man is KING,
so another round for Johhhnnnny MMMMMM!
Now don't forget next week
that Raven' Bronx whole pint
whose name's half P-O-E-try
flashes his tin-tin-a-bulation
nose to nose with Emmy D.
That's right, a polysyllabic slam!
Frenchified metered madness
meets WASP incisor consonants!
So come alone or come enjambed, then smoke
your own poems in the open mike.
Next up the word Zen master,
the word construction worker,
the verbal mojo most quoted
so Bartlett's won't look anorexic,
that iambic pentajazzmeter
whose mama was a sonnet
and whose papa kept a muse!
Pound those palms and show your ghost for
WILLIE SHAKE-IT-SPEARE!!!!!



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