Poetry Magazine ~ Friday, June 26, 2020

To build a bower but not a birdcage, 

obviously, Daedalus must rethink, 

burdened with guilt after Icarus fell 

under the eyes of all the gods, hopeless, 

imaginary deities, lifeless, 

lurking within the labyrinth, our boy, 

drama unfolds, a hero must destroy 

a monster, a deformed creature at birth, 

born with a head with horns, call Guinness Book 

of World Records, call Barnum and Bailey, 

wonders never cease, imprison the boy, 

even if he never harms a person, 

remember, we live in a monstrous world, 

bring us the head of the Minotaur now, 

ugly, it was only a little boy, 

to say he appeared not unlike a bull, 

note, Greek Mythology is but bullshit, 

ontologically, the true genesis 

taken into account of a small boy, 

a child deformed from birth, called a monster, 

bullshit artists like A. E. Stallings* write 

insulting ideas we call poetry, 

remember, a twisted mind requires truth, 

demonstrate for the world, the artifice, 

create as a poet, a Creator, 

ask Poetry to bend over for May, 

given 2020 is total crap, 

even Daedalus grieves over both sons. 

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*https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/153195/daedal