what made me want to write poetry
Posted: March 30th, 2017, 11:23 pm
it was that spoof movie in around 62
with the beatnik poet reciting
in the beginning that planted the idea
that poetry was cool
and Dylan lyrics several years later
that really made the idea grow
Dylan obviously read Rimbaud
but it really was the Vietnam war
that made me want to put my protest
into a poem, it was what really
pushed the idea home
the Vietnam war tore America in half
anybody that had a brain
knew that that war was insane
and at eighteen I knew they wanted
to give me a gun and drop me off
in the jungle, and say go kill son
my mantra became, hell no I wont go
this child beatnik become hippie
became a subversive poet
with the beatnik poet reciting
in the beginning that planted the idea
that poetry was cool
and Dylan lyrics several years later
that really made the idea grow
Dylan obviously read Rimbaud
but it really was the Vietnam war
that made me want to put my protest
into a poem, it was what really
pushed the idea home
the Vietnam war tore America in half
anybody that had a brain
knew that that war was insane
and at eighteen I knew they wanted
to give me a gun and drop me off
in the jungle, and say go kill son
my mantra became, hell no I wont go
this child beatnik become hippie
became a subversive poet