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Culture Vultures
Mark Walsh

Culture vultures, culture vultures,
Boiling oily brew;
The snobbishness they sell
Is just enough so you
Take them at their word
Take a date night out
But that installation
Just made your date-wife shout:
”What the hell, Arnie?”
What the hell indeed.
Culture vultures, culture vultures
Art’s alive…Godspeed.

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Mark Walsh is an English professor at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, MA. His recent publications include Wilderness House Literary Review, The Beatnik Cowboy, Abandoned Mine, and Rituals. His poem “Slow Wine” is currently part of an art installation outside the entrance of the Brockton Public Library.

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