Music for Doughy White Males
I’m thinking the white man could use some beat.
Educated white males, doughy, over
With heavy lyrics.
They’re in high clover
Simply to listen.
Dough Man does not dance.
Oh, he’ll tap a toe, or if he’s had beer
He will let loose like a monkey in pants.
Alice’s Restaurant
words are still near
In his mind.
Dough cannot dance to words, man!
It needs the sonnet beat! Manifesting
Hip and unheard words from body and gland!
Punct u a tion!
It makes the sentence sing.
Percussion! - take a dose from musicians.
Absorb the pulse, RISE! Beat the condition.
(Sonnet format: A B A B C D C D E F E F G G 14 lines, 10 syllables per line.)