This is not a sacrificial poem
This is not a Prop
This is not a costume
This is not a clock
This is not a weekday
This is not a Monday
This is not Tuesday
This is not Wednesday
This is not Thursday like its Friday
This is Slam Day
This is not a competition, it is
This is not a poem about climate crisis, it is
This is not Capitalism, it is
This is not a Democracy
This is not a Republic
This is not an Anarchist, man
This is just another poem in a poetry slam
But I digress
This is not an Israel Folau rant, it is
This is not a retracted go-fund-me page apology
This is not a My Gods Better than Your God poem
This is not an angry baby Jesus burns people just because he loves them poem
This is not a unicorn bible
This is not a metaphor
This is not a simile
This is not an in-joke
This is not a Pop Cultural Reference
This is not Kanye and Bieber and Ed Shereen in a three-way
This is not Tay-Tay dropping a Miley on Beyonce
This is not Gary, George and Matt in: I’m a naked celebrity-chef - get me the fuck outta here - your time starts now
And I digressed
This is not a Michael Jackson memorial poem
This is not a Smith Street Band moment
This is not Louie CK trapped inside his own joke
FYI This is not another fucking hash tag
This is not a post-structuralist didactic Anzac Poem
Yeah Nah this is not a War Poem
This is not an Eco-poem
This is not a Eulogy
This is not an Ars Poetica esoterica
This is not a Found Poem
This is not a Limerick:
There was an old poet from Joondalup
Who couldn’t find a rhyme for Joondalup
He tried very hard, but couldn’t find one
So he just gave up in the middle of this poem
This is not a song about failure
This is not a rhyme about Australia
This is not a Sonnet about Donald Fucking Trump/Donald Fucking Trump in a Demilitarised Zone
This is not a poem about Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti playing footy
yes, yes, yes, yes, I do digress
This not a poem without fucks
See what I did there
This is not a dictionary
This is not a Thesaurus
This is not a Lexicon
This is not a Vocabulary
This is not a Glossary
This is not a Phrasebook
This is not a Wordlist
This is not my voice
This is not a stage
This is not a poet
This is not a microphone
This is not Tonja the timekeeper
You are not the audience
This is not a bell…
1 2 3 4 5 This is not a poem it’s a sacrifice!
1 2 3 4 5 This is not a poem it’s a sacrifice!
NOT
A
PROP