Rules and Rulers

the argument: what is a poem
may have predated Rehoboam
as far back as old Gilgamesh
cuneiforms, were judged as "fresh"
or hardly worth their weight in clay
(old Solomon, they often say
used a technique of pray and spray
with poems as with wives
his song of songs survives)

I often wonder, nonetheless
when seeing adjectives abused
would these be seen as fit to press
were Guttenberg's technique still used
descriptions dripping, drip, drip, drip
(resembling an acid trip
write-only drivel, get a grip
and blandness pours from every pore
the autorank, though, what a score!)

this balderdash a poem?
to read 'em is to know 'em
I'll let the audience decide
on to the next one, bleary eyed