Music.....now

Music now, belongs
To the cynic, the critic
The slayer of sound

To lyrics that blush
And music of embarrassed
Nursery rhyme

To marketing
The press-con, the byte hungry
News hound

Songs educated by MBAs
Cast out for surveys
Abound!

Is it tra-la-la enough?
Does it merge
With the breeze?

Is it hipper and hopper?
FM friendly?
A traffic stopper?

Top 40, Top 50,
Sweet melody
Dolloped on ice cream

As background,
For teenaged, backless
Backseats

Behind sunscreen
In ear-piece
Amid elevators
And hotel lobbies

On posters with freebies
On facebook, on mp3.




Sound hasn’t thundered
Or wondered
Or mellowed
Or howled

Or disturbed
And perturbed
Or mangled
Or growled

Hasn’t
Used Art for art’s sake
Used craft or stave
Not written or smitten
Or educated and played

It’s under a thumb
Thicker than dumb
Eclipsed by a moon
That deafens tunes

In AMTs and Sec A-Bs
As backgrounds for TGs
Hooks please
No cacophony

It’s found its resting place
De-fanged and commodified
Turned into a product
That you sell
And I buy.