The Talent Less Show Poem by Matthew Holloway

I was wasting a day onetime
Watching television without attention
Some apparent talent show
Filled with bad singers
Poor comedians and magicians
The crowd laughed and cheered
Whenever prompted like sheep
The judges sat talking rubbish
Praising the mediocre
The presenters made bad jokes
With each participant
Then entering stage left
A girl walked on, announce herself
The judges sat forward
Made some small talk for a while
Finally they asked her, her talent
She said she was a poet
Finally something got my attention
But the crowd began to boo
Before she said another word
The ignorant masses unwilling to listen
To someone who creates
No they wanted instant entertainment
Not an artist, a writer, a poet
They heard poetry and thought
Oh hear is some Shakespearean speech
So many unwilling to discover, learn
What poetry actually is
I turned the television off
Tired of the talent less show
And decided to read a book
If only to feed my soul