The Renaissance: A Poem of Change

By Ryan Duffy

The renaissance will not be televised

You will not be able to see it on cable.

You will not see it on iTunes, TiVo, or YouTube.

You will not be able to see Super Bowl commercials,

Or half-time wardrobe malfunctions due to a 2 second delay.

Because the renaissance will not be televised.

The renaissance will not be compromised.

The renaissance will not be available on Blu-Ray-DVD

Encrypted high def with an FBI copyright warning.

The renaissance will not be sound bites of Bush

Declaring "war on terror" & "evil-doers" like Saddam

Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda only to be

Stuck in Iraq years later with no exit strategy.

The renaissance will not be compromised.

The renaissance will not have its world premiere at the

Grauman's Chinese Theater and will not star Beyonce,

Lindsay Lohan, or Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn.

The renaissance will not give you another face lift.

The renaissance will not get rid of wrinkles.

The renaissance will not make you look ten years

younger, because the renaissance will not be advertised, brother.

There will be no color-coded terrorism threat advisory scale,

United States Department of Homeland Security, or

Emergancy Readiness kits with duct tape in them.

The NSA will not be able to get warrantless wiretaps

For KEYWORDS like "bomb" or "jihad"

The renaissance will not be terrorized.

There will be no footage of pigs beating down

Rodney King on instant replay.

There will be no footage of brothers beating

Reginald Denny on instant replay.

There will be no coverage of Rev. Al Sharpton

Eulogizing James Brown at the Apollo theater

There will be no LAPD car chase of O. J.Simpson riding in a White GMC Bronco,

Going 40 miles an hour down the LA Freeway,

Wearing black Isotoner gloves he had been saving

For just the proper occasion.

Survivor, American Idol, and Big Brother,

Will no longer be so damned relevant, and

No one will care if Britney finally got back

Custody of her 2 kids because people

will be in the street looking for a brighter day.

The renaissance will not be commercialized.

There will be no video blogs or highlights on

Entertainment Tonight of Paris Hilton going to jail

For D.U.I. or Miley Cyrus going platinum.

The theme song will not be remixed by Bad Boy,

Jermaine Dupri, nor sung by Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls,

Kanye West, Soulja Boy, or the Black Eyed Peas.

The renaissance will not be glamourized.

The renaissance will not be right back after an Email

From eBay, eCommerce, eTrade, or eHarmony.

You will not have to worry about Anthrax in your

mail, a bomb on your plane, or water in your carry on.

The renaissance will not go better with rhymes

The renaissance will not be longer than 3 minutes and 10 seconds

The renaissance WILL be found here at the Drake.

The renaissance will not be televised, compromised, advertised

Terrorized, commercialized, or glamourized.

The renaissance will be no cover brothers;

The renaissance will be live.