Kurt died for our sins
(alternative title: yes Gina, there was a Kurt)

Kurt blew his head off
I'd like to say clean off,
but it was anything but clean.

Kurt was an asshole
equally as much
for being selfish enough
to leave his daughter fatherless
and to leave the rest of us
poetless

Bukowski's already dead.
Vonneguts been silent for years
Burroughs has been and still is a fool
and Rollins needs to learn to masturbate
other than in public.

It's so easy to hate Kurts music.
Catchy pop rythyms
angst ridden stupidity
breaking guitars and bleeding on stage

but there is a staying power
beyond the music
and the antics

I hated Nirvana
until I listened in to the lyrics
really listened in
and realized
unlike every other band since 1985
(when the replacements began writing ballads)
there, inside
deep within
hidden
under the marketability
and despite novoselic's
lack of talent
and Grohl's mundanity
there was
something
called
felt
moved
ate
bit
hidden
deeply
hidden
beneath
was
a
poet.