America's Most Complete Poet, Ugly Hatred, My Heart the Drum, and You Better Vote!

America's Most Complete Poet

  So many poets he's read
  Every form he's mastered and bettered
  While creating his own form
  That will survive the annals of the ages
  He will be studied and pondered
6  And scholars will pontificate and swoon
  Over every poem, every line, every syllable
  His epics, his general prose will be worshipped
  Every corner a t-shirt with his face
  Musicians and painters will interpret him
  The English language has never had a better penman
12 A daring daring artist... Only Shakespeare has been as competent
  Jonathan Sheppard has been the voice we all lack
  Who the fuck is that?

Ugly Hatred

I'm not attracted
You are ugly, I'm sorry
And I hate ugly

(East Los Angeles, California)

My Heart the Drum

  Sight is a curse
  When I look upon your beauty
  I seriously, truly, indignantly hurt
  Every gaze, newly
  Makes my heart beat with the harm
6  Of a drummer with no arms

You Better Vote!

  Today is election day
  So you know your duty
  As a citizen of the United States
  You must vote! For not voting is unruly

  It doesn't matter if you know the candidate
6  Or the issues
  Just vote dammit!
  You're not American if you refuse

  I voted yes on Proposition 19
  It enacts a law
  That won't allow for people, mean
12 Happiness is all that needs to be saw

  In a landslide the will to be happy wins!
  There will be no more grief, dejection, or misery
  Now if any action saddens
  In jail you'll be
  For you need to feel lucky
18 Today is the day that distress and sorrow did end