The Mod Acrostic By G.M. Davis

Should art be autotelic, or for use?
Only for pleasure; all else would be abuse.
Can it not point us to the wise and good?
Rarely--and there's no reason why it should.
An artist, then, may lack a moral sense?
Too true--and there's an alp of evidence.
Is Matthew Arnold not a guiding light?
Call him instead a kind of Prozac-lite.
Must culture only be panacea?
Ethics are the tastes of the yesteryear.
Then appetitites are all you recognize?
Hedonic jouissance is what I prize.
Oh, is there nothing that can lift your soul?
Decidedly: sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.