boycott you
in his bitter end
jack kerouac became a racist
and an anti-semite
he went on tv and blamed his jewish friends
for everything
the same can be said for eliot, wagner
degas and crazy ol’ ezra pound
picasso drove two women to madness
two others killed themselves over him
and ernie hemingway pushed through four wives
and two fucked up sons
before he finally took a bullet to his head over breakfast
on video i’ve watched bukowski kick his wife off a couch
over and over and over again
in a fit of drunken jealous rage
while norman mailer tried to kill his wife
hell, caravaggio and ben jonson actually did kill people
villon and genet were thieves
and rimbaud ended up nothing but a smuggler
nabokov wrote lolita and lord byron fucked his half-sister
of course flaubert paid to fuck little boys
dickens, the immortal charles dickens
for all of his philanthropic work
chuck had a taste for the whores
just like vincent van gogh
and those are just the men, ladies and gentlemen
let’s not even get started about what virginia woolf
put leonard through
before she took a pocketful of rocks to the river
the point is for all of their blemishes, heinous words
or despicable acts
i wouldn’t give one of them back to this slush pile life
i’d rather their art over their good conscience
and citizenship any day
because some of them have given me more light and life
than my family or the closest of friends
so to you people boycotting this artist and that
over their personal views
orson scott card or whoever you trolls have lined up next
someone whose views aren’t yours
or aren’t the fashion of the day
do me a favor and sit down and try to sweat out
thirty novels in as many years
or a handful of operas
a symphony or another wasteland
hell, try to write out your grocery lists
do something other than pounding out your inane
uneducated opinions behind the safe mercy of internet anonymity
your dull bullshit in 140 characters or less
and then we’ll talk
about who’s boycotting who
you motherfuckers.
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