Poem: Suzuki Beane Method

(Like we all know about dogs)

(With their crazy four legs)

But what about the dogmen

Hotdogging us before they stick it in

(And with that wild ta)le

Dogma spread across the lawn

Their doggerel

Blossoming like dogwoods in spring

(And we pet them and things)

As the dogs of war

Chew the doughboys like biscuits

(But who cares about four legs)

Three branches two houses eight corporations

(And a ta)le

Told by a barker posing as an idiot

Signifying everything

(When all they really do is) shit.

Author's notes: This was meant to be in more of a "slam poetry" style than some of my usual output. It's also decidedly a protest piece, though like most of my work it's meant to convey an emotional impression more than anything in particular. It should be read aloud at a fairly fast, aggressive clip.

People with absurdly huge reference pools will recognize the lines in parentheses as belonging to a somewhat obscure book written by one Sandra Scoppettone called Suzuki Beane, about a six-year-old beatnik. The title is an homage to that and to the Gorillaz song "Left Hand Suzuki Method."