Apr 02, 2009 12:21
Education for Leisure
Today I am going to kill something. Anything.
I have had enough of being ignored and today
I am going to play God. It is an ordinary day,
a sort of grey with boredom stirring in the streets
I squash a fly against the window with my thumb.
We did that at school. Shakespeare. It was in
another language and now the fly is in another language.
I breathe out talent on the glass to write my name.
I am a genius. I could be anything at all, with half
the chance. But today I am going to change the world.
something’s world. The cat avoids me. The cat
knows I am a genius, and has hidden itself.
I pour the goldfish down the bog. I pull the chain.
I see that it is good. The budgie is panicking.
Once a fortnight, I walk the two miles into town
For signing on. They don’t appreciate my autograph.
There is nothing left to kill. I dial the radio
and tell the man he’s talking to a superstar.
he cuts me off. I get our bread-knife and go out.
The pavements glitter suddenly. I touch your arm.
- Carol Ann Duffy.
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Not ljcut 'cause it's only tiny and I'm lazy today. I first found this poem when we did it for As level English Lit. I'll have to do a voicepost of it, cause I love it in a way that you can only really hear, and when I read it out to my college English Lit class I got told repeatedly that it was fucked up and I was too.
So yeah. Happy April Second...
plum x.
P.S. Again, feel free to post your own poems (favorites by others, or even your own works) in the comments. I'd love to see them, and they might turn out to be some of my favourites too.
headvoices,
feels like fighting,
college,
(inter)national poetry month,
ow