Murder Will Out

“goodness, like murder, will out”  ~ R. H. Blyth

Nerds try to kill normality like those

Who kill off music, art and poetry.

The twelve-tone tunes (?) attempt to set a pose

Of music, but our normal ears still see

Straight through the scam.  In academe they tell

Our unsuspecting students, “This is how

Jean Barraqué: Séquence (1955)

New music sounds,” but minds say, “What the hell?”

Most pack away their books, then turn and bow

Away to go to Mendelssohn and Bach.

Professors try to ram down Pollock in

The students.  Gullets, though, refuse to mock

The truth.  They know a sin when seeing sin.

  The High Brows say, “Avoid the pleasing rhymes.”

    The betters leave these wreckers to their crimes.

~ Phillip Whidden