I Defy You to Listen to “Music” by Jean Barraqué and Not be Nauseated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WD9YjJxw4M
The centuries just before our current one
Decided to experiment with form
In all the arts. This sea change had begun
With poetry. The Rimbauds caused a storm
Along with Whitman and vers libre French.
The plastic arts and music followed. What
We got then was the Jackson Pollock stench
Of so-called artistry as great as smut.
The conquest of more formal beauties is
Complete now, almost. Many people think
That only free verse is inspired (the biz!)
And older beauties are just so much stink.
..Perhaps the truest horrors, though, are rap
….And Hallmark rhyming—all such low down crap.