Four Poets

there's the one with a wealth
of laurels, the readies to go with 'em
and on his palate a clustering
oyster of spit.
or the one who from modern grudges
out of closeted flushrooms
concocts
her litanies of similitudes
against the rooster she sees as
everywhere about to ejaculate
while she goes home
and gets quietly randy
with broody Biddie.
or shall we say the Varsity type
who runs "Master Class" Poetry Workshops
and deals with his garden adventures
and the traces left in January snow by fauna,
either that or a refrigerator full of
middle class food situated among
the niceties which surround his social whirl.
they have their ways of addressing the Muse
which are not a lot worse
than the method of the ironic observer
with a wallet full of social security money
whose picture it's always a pleasure to
apply the varnish of a little
sarcasm to.