Drum roll please.

Poetry save the world

 

If we set the Iliad to rap

sparked it up a bit

if we had Rhianna and Shady duet.

It would be a hit.

 

If the A&R men recorded it

and the radio put it on rotation

played it on every station

it would be a hit

 

The kids would all be humming it

the hipsters would be strumming it

the world would then improve a bit

it would be a hit.

 

Then the kids would learn the words of it

would sing it every day a bit

and bit by bit they’d understand it

it would be a hit.

 

Shady and Rhianna would be laureates

poetry would be cool a bit

the world would be saved by it

if The Iliad was a hit.

 

©Dave Kavanagh 2016