Tim Minchin - Storm - A beat poem

I included this as a piece of performance poetry that I found funny. Although there is clearly more of a structural composition (with the internal rhyme) to it than the spontaneous works of Kerouac and Ginsberg, it retained the humour and the emphasis on delivery in order to connect to the audience. I thought it deviated slightly from typical beat poetry in that it defended a 'mainstream' societal view and ridiculed the alternative, doing this through elevated vocabulary which is not necessarily accessible. Either way, I thought it was an interesting view on a modern perception of what Beat poetry is, and showed the opinion that it was slightly pretentious (complete with prop of wine) rythmic speaking.