Tuesday, April 14, 2020


THE MENACE APPRENTICE

The Menace Apprentice
is a fate that's not meant us
just a mistake life's lent us
come to divide and rent us
an unreality show star
whose known wide and far
for his inimitable genius
for lying and meanness
and the smoke and mirror
make his confusion much clearer
he's a mental hologram of blubber
fool's gold and used rubbers
The Eternal Dolt
a dodo in full molt
a pitiable ignoramus \
who will die still trying to shame us
loves the suffering he causes
accepts only escape clauses
feels nothing but threat
even his saliva's flop sweat
he's a blob of self-pity
what he touches turns shitty
he's all about the teardown
and meltdown and beatdown
mad clown with a shit crown
he's a nervous condition
of demolition absent contrition
a public masturbation of dissipation
his excitation now a capitulation
to his fear of a fight
a scared dog with a bite
drowns in the hate he's sown
with us in the splash zone
and a pandemic he's blown
it's your very life he'd own
he's an exploding supernova of gall and bile
the only space force we'll see for a while
a dark matter show of hook and crook
of deny steal lie plunder and rook
our suffering his happy place
good ol' arsenic and bear mace
he and his axis of weevils
their role models medievals
minds in constant upheavals
I may yet believe in evil

          Larry Piltz
          April 14, 2020

                                                                   Mother and daughter