Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines
By JAMES PARKER | June 14, 2007
Lines Upon Hearing the Smashing Pumpkins’ Single “Tarantula,” Their First New Material Since 2000
Billy Corgan, your vocal organ offends my tender ears.
I thought you were gone, but I was wrong, and you’re back,
after seven years.
How gifted you are when you play the guitar, and how charming your
changes of key;
But you sing like a weed on which dogs have peed — or that’s how it
sounds to me.
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