I released a masterpiece <br />When none of you were listening <br />The sounds of silence were deafening <br />You must have been out for the summer <br />Watching the Olympics or Obama <br />Praying for the fate of civilization <br />While I was slaving in the kitchen <br />(While she was sleeping in the bedroom) <br />To serve you with my inspiration <br />Poetic new cuisine <br />Basted for decades, a recipe <br />Not tasted since Verlaine <br /> <br />And now my mess of words, my dish <br />Cool and putrid, languishes <br />In the wastebins of rejection <br />On the dumps of your distraction <br />Condemned to death by unconcern <br />The amusements you call progress <br />I call poet injustice. <br /> <br />But still I do not take offence <br />And now you have another chance <br />For this is the remake, re-release <br />The warmed-over, hopped-up, reheat <br />The Bargain Bin Reissue <br />The final call <br />The dying fall... <br />My new Soup Can Picasso. <br /> <br />Enjoy it while you may <br />There are bills to pay and did I mention <br />It will be auctioned off, real soon... <br />Unless you pay attention.<br /><br />Frank Bana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/yet-another-neglected-masterpiece-53rd-birthday/
