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English Homework Sucks
2005-08-31, 9:12 AM #1
In my English class we've been studying the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye, whom I hate. Really.

My English teacher also likes to have us write poetry, but she doesn't think we can do it without a template, so one day she decided to have us write a poem using phrases from one of Nye's poems ("Coming into Cuzco"). Grrr. I decided to post this one, for some reason. (I hate titling things. NO TITLE!)

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We woke early and found
Someone had our drawers with Bibles

At the airport we waited for our plane,
Haunting coffee shops and bookstores
Ghosts cursed by artificial lights.
I wandered in front of the books for Neal or Terry.
You stood with a magazine that would soon be free.

I was listening for our flight. There was nothing
Sound does not happen in nothing.

I had a thought, but I could not speak it.

Things moved as we boarded, but I could not see them.

I did not move, but the plane rose and we were riding it.

I looked down at that land that I did not recognize
And wondered: "Am I awake?"
I was not.
And I said to myself "You know nothing of the color fleeble"
And you turned into a penguin.

When we landed, I started to forget.
Waking up from Purgatory leads to either Heaven or Hell
And I thought, "I bet Mother-in-law is starting the fires now"


Yeah, it's not really mine, and I only spent maybe 10 minutes on it, but I wanted to post it for some reason.
Ban Jin!
Nobody really needs work when you have awesome. - xhuxus
2005-08-31, 9:03 PM #2
What a NAZI! I am totally against the stereotypical
English teacher. This teacher of yours sounds just
like most of the other fools around that decide they
like English so much that they want to go teach it
to poor little children in hopes of corrupting their
minds. I am good at English and I really love writing
and enjoy reading but sometimes that gets all ruined
in procedural curriculums and closed minded teachers.
I absolutely detest English just because of all the bad
teachers there seems to be and am willing to help out
a fellow victim of NAZI english teachers.

Oh yea the poem. Well I don't really get it much. As
for a title maybe it could be called Delirium. It should
be a good poem because it seems vague to me. Any
vague poem with big(ish) or fancy words will seem
good to the teacher because even if you don't mean
anything really in the poem and it is just BS they will
still think it's profound or something. The best part
of this kind of thing is that if the teacher will just think
they are unable to grasp the true meaning of the
poem when in reality it has no meaning.

p.s. if you really didn't write this at up at all I would
encourage you to try something of your own next
time because that can make english more bearable.
If curiosity killed the cat then perhaps Curious George killed the cat.
But Cat's do have nine lives so who knows?
2005-09-01, 11:21 PM #3
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I absolutely detest English


And so I noticed.

As for the poem, well... No.
幻術

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