Monday, July 6, 2009

CW 10 Poetry Assignment

Believe it or not, this is a love poem. And it's supposed to look like this-- the homework is all about the use of jargon to make a poem that "kind of makes sense."

In the impartiality of my opinions
I find the paradigm shift you
Away from my tyranny
Settling for Oligarchy
Waiting for Democracy
Forgetting that Monarchy
Is not as bad as it looks.
Are you aiming for a polity
Dismissing the Utopia
Of Marxism or Anarchy
Looking for equilibrium
In this unreasonable rapport?
Why was I Bourgeoisie
While you were Proletariat
And where was ideological Third Way
When I was Atomism
And you were Socialism?
But now you're Classic Liberal
And I'm hopelessly lost
In a sea of categories
And rationalization
And vindication
Of the incomprehensible.

2 comments:

  1. a love poem?
    it sounds like an excerpt from a book for political science majors...
    but, i want to tackle this poem in my eng11 class. lol. really. this is a love poem that ended before it even started. intriguing.

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  2. Kim! Haha. I like your comment... "Ended before it started." VERY true. Haha. See why I should never be made to write lurve poetry? I SUCK AT IT.

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