Take Me To The Roxy, A Poem

by William Skink

Tomorrow I’ll be writing up a profile on the SECOND venue to deny me a location to show a little film I’ve been working on. Until then, a poem:

take me to the Roxy
fill my stein with Coke 
or Pepsi, I don't care 
the whole thing is a joke

conveying this in theater
is not an easy task
with cowards selling popcorn
and mics that could be tapped

why such a tizzy when
we scratch and sniff their TIF? 
motherfuckers, please
it's such an easy lift 

ugly metal sculpture dogs
and dumb reflection parks 
with daytime zombie fix hounds
coughing up their sparks

Talbot CIA and merry
I am Rhodes 
from the very get-go
shooting off their loads

it's all right there, serfs
if you care to see
beyond the learned helplessness
that wafts from their degrees

and I don't mean the temperature
of their crisis play
but paper-thin credentials
they spell-cast to evade

a coming realignment 
away from their control
when we show up to dismantle
their committee of the whole