Epigraph

"[P]oetry makes nothing happen: it survives, / [...] a way of happening, a mouth." -W. H. Auden

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Kanye West Replaces His Bottom Teeth With Diamonds

Kanye West Replaces His Bottom Teeth With Diamonds

In the meantime,
there are people who can't pay
to see a dentist or doctor,
people who work overtime
at horrible jobs,
people who are homeless
or starving. And Kanye
is installing diamond teeth
in a skull that will one day
rot in the ground, leaving
exactly one half
of an obscene
and hedonistic smile,
a crown for worms,
bling for the dust of the earth.

Luke Hankins

2 comments:

  1. I freaking love this. You are the voice of conscience.

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  2. ..."leaving / exactly one half / of an obscene / and hedonistic smile, / a crown for worms..."! sends the good kind of shivers and drives the point. well-delivered!

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