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POETIC
BEBOP FOR BEATNIKS
Pass The Bongos, Ginsberg,
As this scrapple from my Apple
takes a whack at Kerouac,
and the Hip Hipster of Hippness
hipply hips you unhip lames
to what it truly is to be hip to the
very hip hippness of that which is hip:

To be hip is to embrace what is hip
based purely on its hippness
rather than merely because
it is hip for a hipster
to be hip.

Hip is the essence
of that which is hip.
Therefore, the hip
don’t Be hip, they Are hip.
Thus, a true hipster is hip
to the fact that hippness
is hip in its own hip regard,
and not merely hip
for those unhip
who would be hip
to embrace its hippness
for the sole unhip purpose
of being hip to what's hip,
you dig?

So, to a very great extent,
hip is the intrinsic hippness
of what is hip.
Therefore, one cannot
be hip without being hip
to the fundamentally hip fact
that it is unquestionably
unhip to try to
become hip, or be hip--
since effort  to be hip
is the exceedingly
unhip antithesis of  that which
is hip within hipness itself.

Thus, in the hippest
of glibly hip fashion,
The Hip Hipster of Hippness
hereby hipply hips
you to the inescapably hip
fact that so hipply follows:

To Be Hip Ain’t Hip.
So to be hip, or not to be hip
Is definitely not the question.
There is no question
about what is hip.
Hip Simply Is . . .
you hip?                                                                         

Eric L.Wattree
Wattree.com
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