Pitted against The Poet!

Having got to the age of 56 and being able to rhyme at will hasn't enriched me as much as working in an office has, I am in the bah humbug quadrant of creatives. Nonetheless it is fun to torture myself by watching DVDs of Leonard Cohen, a celebrated poet in his country when I was two. So it isn't inevitable that poets will not be lauded in their time either.

I also know that Touched By The Son would not fail to share a link on the effect poetry has had on history.

How could a poet hoping to be discovered at a reading, a book signing, a slam, a spoken word event, Amazon share in this bounty? If we've been brainwashed to believe there's no money in verse or lira in lyrics, how are we going to capitalise on this newfound power?

First, one has to write a poem and I was taken by the meme containing the H.L. Mencken quote

As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

All his quotes are this mordant and cutting but just WOW

II

It has come to fruition, the Mencken quote

We might have been more forgiving 

that he dressed up as a cowboy for a living

and then there was a further push 

against the son who is also George Bush 

Now food on your family sounds like quaint repartee

tipped out of their teepees and the Tea Party tee hee

You're fired from a canon of presidential decorum

suitable for internal as for each foreign forum 

Rich kid who isn't righteous as such
just wants to say how he hates you so much