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Bob Dylan does not deserve this snobbery and pedantry: Academics need to stop pretending that pop lyrics have no literary worth, writes Michael Horovitz (seen in

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The article is well-written. However, there is something to the "snobbery" that many poets have towards pop lyrics. A lot of pop lyrics barely utilize the amount of craft that academic poetry does. I'm a fan of slant rhyme, for example, but even I couldn't get away with some of the rhymes that songs do unless I were writing a song. Popular lyrics have a lot more leeway because they are melded with the accompaniment (especially if the melody comes before the words do); also, much doggerel can be catapulted into cultural dominance due to the notation that buoys it. A good musical progression can lead listeners to forgive mediocre lyrics.

Very appropriate that the same night that I write my first sonnet with the word "defenestrate" in it that I listen to "Out the Window" by Violent Femmes.

She was fine, she looked great
So we made our big mistake
I swear, I swear it'd never, never happen to her

But the pavement knocked her head around
When she hit the solid concrete ground
from thirty flights above
and she was thirty-somethin', loving nothin'

Get out of the car
Put down the phone
Take off that stupid-looking hat you wear

I'm gonna die
if you touch me one more time
Well, I guess that I'm gonna die no matter what

Love people are there
The smell of love is everywhere
You think it's always sensitive and good
You think that I want to be understood
I've got a match: your embrace and my collapse

Beat up the cat
if you need someone else on the mat
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Bleach Boys
by the Dead Milkmen, found on Beelzebubba

I've got some buddies, and we all drink bleach
You know we practice what we preach
We're not a drunken bunch of frat boys trashed on beers
Or a stoned bunch of hippies with no careers
I want to drink bleach with a Georgia peach

My pals and I all drink Clorox
Or eat Snowy Bleach right out of the box
Teenage suicide rates shot high
And we understand the reasons why
Bleach does more than whiten socks

Don't you want to hang out with the bleach boys, baby?
In a world where ministers murder golf pros
Don't you want to drink some bleach tonight?

Maybe there'll be a party at the beach
We'll bitch about life and chuggle the bleach
No one's gettin' high and no one's gettin' drunk
Got a case of bleach stashed in my trunk
I want to die with Clorox within reach

I'm very proud of the respect I've earned
And my voice is very deep 'cause my throat got burned
Bleach keeps you young, so I've been told
'Cause no one who drinks it lives to get old
Drink it with a chaser was the first thing that I learned

Don't you want to hang out with the bleach boys, baby?
In a world where midgets run for mayor
Don't you want to drink some bleach tonight?

Had 26 friends in the beginning
But now it seems our numbers are thinnin'
Some people drive fast, others love to bet
Still others snort coke in a private jet
But drinkin' bleach is my way of winnin'

Don't you want to hang out with the bleach boys, baby?
In a world where welders own our schools
Don't you want to drink some bleach tonight?

I'm so bored, I'm drinkin' bleach
I'm so bored, I'm drinkin' bleach
(repeat 8x)

I AM SO BORED!

( my DXM spoof--Dex Dames )

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