How Not to Howl
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How Not to Howl
The Actor performs Ginsberg’s “Howl” with gusto.
The audience listens demurely,
Some call out trepiditious “go’s!”
I picture an auditorium engorged with academics
And a smattering of dark hearted, cigarette lunged poets.
All are trying to channel that corner of soul
which wears Darth Vadar’s helmet,
and a black turtleneck.
To caress the inner darkness is divine.
The Actor screams, shrieks, writhes
The greedy hearers squirm and swell with pride
when shivers run down their spines.
Bring it down a notch, Caldeiro darling, to the human stratosphere.
Words unscreamed can still be weighty.
A holler is not a Howl.
The Actor performs Ginsberg’s “Howl” with gusto.
The audience listens demurely,
Some call out trepiditious “go’s!”
I picture an auditorium engorged with academics
And a smattering of dark hearted, cigarette lunged poets.
All are trying to channel that corner of soul
which wears Darth Vadar’s helmet,
and a black turtleneck.
To caress the inner darkness is divine.
The Actor screams, shrieks, writhes
The greedy hearers squirm and swell with pride
when shivers run down their spines.
Bring it down a notch, Caldeiro darling, to the human stratosphere.
Words unscreamed can still be weighty.
A holler is not a Howl.
