Yet Another Neglected Masterpiece (53rd Birthday) Poem by Frank Bana

I released a masterpiece
When none of you were listening
The sounds of silence were deafening
You must have been out for the summer
Watching the Olympics or Obama
Praying for the fate of civilization
While I was slaving in the kitchen
(While she was sleeping in the bedroom)
To serve you with my inspiration
Poetic new cuisine
Basted for decades, a recipe
Not tasted since Verlaine

And now my mess of words, my dish
Cool and putrid, languishes
In the wastebins of rejection
On the dumps of your distraction
Condemned to death by unconcern
The amusements you call progress
I call poet injustice.

But still I do not take offence
And now you have another chance
For this is the remake, re-release
The warmed-over, hopped-up, reheat
The Bargain Bin Reissue
The final call
The dying fall...
My new Soup Can Picasso.

Enjoy it while you may
There are bills to pay and did I mention
It will be auctioned off, real soon...
Unless you pay attention.