Outsider

Poetry slams as rappers dance

words parkour over pages

spill out of lines

the autodidact her back to the wall

outsider looking in

research-search

- soulsearch

for words beyond

go further find, resist, rebel

find in the book as art words, stories, colour

that challenge

sounds calling out for more

signs that questionacademics, poets, bookmakers

Dare to scare

to read, see, hear differently

Page five before one

end before you begin

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Money and Art

The line of the rap

spread of the dollar

Monetarise the art

follow the boy

who followed the Hirst

Power from the floor

disrupt the word

still they standardise

the critique

the rules rule

in the school