While there may exist,
An appearance of democracy
On the Pathetic website,
Nothing could be further
From the truth.

Vote on new members,
We are encouraged.
Spend your poetic karma capital -
Let the incoming talent
Burst forth across our pages.

This is a lie of alphabetic proportions!
Want entry into this incestuous site?
Then you'd better be a SCHLBM.
If your last name begins with a letter
Other than SCHLBM you're probably out of luck.

Over fifty percent of Path. members
Have surnames beginning with these letters.
Let's examine the S&M voting bloc shall we.
Over one-fifth of our "members" names begin
With these two mighty letters.

Submit the most pedestrian, sophomoric,
Moon & June middle-school rhyme-o-ramas.
If your a SCHLBM - Poem Of The Day!!!
Critically analyse a SCHLBM offering?
Can we spell terminated?

As a lowly "O" (13 members), I know my days are numbered.
Yet what of the poor Z's (8 members), Y's (six) and I's (five).
Shall we talk blatant discrimination?
Three U's have been allowed entry into this "august" company.
And, as some pitiful, ironic tokens - ONE Q, ONE X.

Realistically I cannot lobby for reform,
The SCHLBM's will carve me up and serve me to the P's.
We have one chance at leveling the playing field.
Admit only minority letters into our midst,
Regardless of the literary quality displayed.

If a "S" submits The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner,
Suggest (gently), a career in brick laying, or politics.
Should "M" deliver an Ode on a Grecian urn -
Tell him to "earn" a real living.
But an "X" submission - golden baby, (even if it includes the word phat) .

I envision one day, an I, a Y,or yes,
Even an "O" occupying poem of the day status.
A day when a "Q" can tell a "S" -
Your poem's blows dude, and not be tossed into
The SCHLBM scrapyard -War X, war Q, wa(poem terminated).

10/15/2005

Author's Note: Send help - the "S's", they're trying to............................gllup..........................................

Posted on 10/16/2005
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