Carl Dull
"Sounds like 4 minutes and 33 seconds"
Heavy banks of corpulent smoke
Hang in the malignant air, like a pointless joke,
Told at an awkward point in time.
Screams of pathetic angst, devoid of rhyme
Or reason, crash against the air and break
In harsh waves upon my ears- fake
Airs of talent and inspiration
exude the players, like the trickling perspiration
Leaking down the lead guitarist's forehead,
(and though he may smell alive, I am quite sure he's dead)
Their whining imitations if integrity,
are soon dispersed into a sea of recycled decadence.
A single chain separates the audience
From the choked and amplifier-cluttered stage.
Mere children, embracing the trappings of older age,
Gather together in a flock, and gaze,
(Content to waste through idle, unambitious days)
With glassy eyes upon the band;
The singer's songs are sounding bland,
And begin to grate upon my ears,
Like the rusty grinding of long-unoiled gears.
The scene becomes a comedy-
filled with children wearing harlequin clothes:
But ten years from now the melody will not have slowed,
and then they will not be so eager to imitate
those cheeks, those eyes, those lips, the mask they will then hate
As the sister fates' predestined threads begin to trace
Slow growing lines across their faces.
A girl, (she maybe dreams of quick romance)
and a boy (whose brain is in his cock), begin to dance,
Like plumes of smoke escaping from a fire,
They writhe, they twist, and when they tire
Of the game, they pass together through the weary air
And ascend an infamous, unspoken stair-
No doubt they both intend to prove
their love (How sweet!) So after weed, or maybe only booze,
There's nothing left for them to loose-
Sweet love indeed!
Love as a mongrel loves a bitch in heat,
Love as two sweaty slabs of meat
Beat and bang and slam against each other
In wild unorchestrated frenzy.
So about half a measure later, he clumsily
stumbles down the stairs,
While she delays her entrance for a beat. Finally
she slinks back down and slides back to the symphony
of tone-deaf instruments, cacophony, and apathy.