Rob Kendrick wrote:
) Douglas Adams was wrong; there are at least two producers of "poetry"
) worse than the Bogons.
You should go read the book again, Vogon Poetry is considered
"the third worst poetry in the universe".
To the techno-Fascist and the mob
And to the garden variety slob
All poetry is bad...it grates his dirty ear
The music of words is the music of fear.
The Roman mob, in Julius Caesar,
Comes upon Cinna the harmless poet
The mob has what can only be called a seizure
They claim he's Cinna the conspirator, they know it.
But when the poet cries, I am Cinna the poet
The mob is filled with lust of blood and cannot stop
"Kill him for his bad verses", so goes it
They make him hop and they string him up.
The goat-song grates upon the ear, and is meant to
Its one voice against the community
Where "community" isn't always great:
It can be constructed by greed, fear, and hate.
Cinna and Dionysius must be sacrificed
Because of your ignorance...they must be iced.
But I would remark upon how it is
That sans poetry ignorance, is bliss:
How without a moral imagination
Normalized deviance pervades the nation.
British Petroleum couldn't take the time
To replace a battery in a shut off switch
Now, like apes, they try cement and lime
To plug a hole to make a stitch.
I know these men, they're the loudmouthed thugs
Who won't listen but tell you to
Who think they're such fire plugs
When they say they don't give a rat's ass about you.
Their hired hands are worse, they are deviant men
Selected because they can be controlled
Some of them completely without qualifications, and then,
Some of them with qualifications that are just...old.
They drive the schedule...they ignore real problems
They wouldn't double-hull the Exxon Valdez
And when you object, pal, you're academic
Which means you don't have a dick like them.
And when they come a cropper, and **** up
Their code fails if percent is not followed by p
The containment dome is filled with ice and gas
It's not their fault...'tis someone else, you see.
And if you take a stand like a genuine man
They lead the chorus of fear and hate.
Humanity they can no longer stand
The daemon corporation is now their state.
