Split Down the Middle

SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE

I’m a poet to the lawyers

And a lawyer to the poets

Severed serrated soul

My genius is too whole

A gay to the straights

And a straight to the gays

Entertaining all urges

I am subject to all purges

I add the lilt of art to logic

And the steel of reason to art

To make a science that sings

And an art of savage stings

A rock and roller to the staid

Starched and suited to the rowdy

My fickle emotive spring

Spans the spectrum to each wing

I was named for Saul’s heir

My last name means free of God

Imbued with chosen rays

I swear to singe the common haze

David Gottfried, Copyright, 1995