140 Syllables by Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)

All my life I have wondered,

Why doesn’t somebody write

A terrible poem that says

In so many words, this world

Is a fraud, the people who

Run it are murderous fools,

Everything they ever printed

Is a lie, all their damn art

And literature is a fake,

Behind their gods and laws, and

Pee hole bandits, their science

Is just a fancy way to kill

Us and our girls and kids.

What I want to know is why

Somebody doesn’t write it

All down in about twenty

Lines of seven syllables

Once and for all, and scare the shit

Out of all the dirty squares.