As so many practiced diplomats
So too your vaunted laureates
Whose access to the higher rungs
Of a cultural priesthood
Is hinged upon
Their flair for sophistry.

Well, I vote you the best equipped
To shrink from speech that might suggest
Any thoughts your key target-market might
Not have already signed-off on and ratified.
And I vote you most likely to...

Clutter your language with
So much Deadwood that no
Amount of pruning will reveal
Your intensive, protracted
Campaign of saying...

Nothing at all
Your daydreams
Of black tie affairs at Rideau Hall
Your acceptance speech
Your dramatic pause...

Don't forget to thank those
Bitter ex-musicians, c__ embedded
Rock-journalists, frantically applauding
The latest artist-formerly-known-as...

Iconoclast, giddy from the fumes
Of a fresh defection
Moping to the maudlin beat of
A hat rack rhythm section
A tacit understanding of
Mutual non-aggression
Enjoyed by every nauseating
Do-nothing functionary...

Really, it's not so much the incessant ruse of
a__igning profound meaning to the
Meaningless curios you decorate your sets with in
Your extraordinarily mundane fictions
It's the arrogance of the subtext:

The province of human affairs
Is a field best left
To dilettantes with and extraordinary gift
For feigning of paralysis!

For saying nothing at all
For daydreams
Of black tie affairs at Rideau Hall.
An acceptance speech...

Sustained applause!!!

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