The Tyranny of Grammar 4.0

A few more minor changes to this piece, in preparation for my preposterous and possibly pitiful performance at the National Poetry Slam next week in Austin, TX.  I'm freakin' terrified.

The Tyranny of Grammar (v4.0)

Free yourself from the tyranny
Of the English language.
Take arms against fascist phraseology.
Defend againt the dogma of diagramming.

Grammar is oppression
Imposing conjugation
Formulating regulation
Relegating creativity to a
Subjunctive tense.
Would have, could have, should have,
But didn't.

It forces nouns and verbs
Into an hegemony of number agreement
That I does not stand for.

So subject your subject
To whatever predicate you wish.
Be direct with each object.
Propose preposterous prepositions.

Take up a comma in one hand
And an apostrophe in the other.
Use them as scimitars of linguistic justice
To right the wrongs of writing.

Slice run-on sentences into fragments,
Cut up your predicates into participles.
Perferate your punctuation
For no particular reason.

Who is Webster to tell us
That a "prepalpitated properiodontic procedure" isn't proper?

And who ordained Strunk and White
To tell us what to do?
Were they born in perfect tense?

So read the rules but write your own.
Build your words from truth, not roots.
And structure your sentences
With wood and steel
Instead of dependent clauses

Because you should be dependent on no one.

Paxton Daryl Branson