'The Concept Of The Artist As A Rebel' Poem by RIC BASTASA

revolutionary,
insurgent,
revolutionist,
mutineer,
insurrectionist
guerrilla,
terrorist,
freedom fighter
a person who resists authority
control, or
convention.
nonconformist,
dissenter,
dissident,
iconoclast,
maverick;
informal

bad boy

they are all
your synonyms.

nonrhymer
unpoetic, heresy,
blank versist,
ugly version

bat, upside down
stilts in the skies
roof on the sea

boats flying int he sky
bridges without rivers

artists without cause
floating, floating like a cloud

against Aleppo skies