A Sample Colloborative Poem

created by a group of 7 students and the professor in English 88

a S L A M by Alph, Yosemite, jonslot, Josh, joshua, Shawn, mleader, and espresso (dated 04/26/95 at 9:59 p.m.)


temptation to piece together
immune to analysis? You,
knowing that crisp Septembers and white clouds
are burs.
biblical knowing
bibs
sexpots
exploits
and fucking, can we say that, sir
and shit...too
commodification of rarely used four letters.
toes, too
rarely slammed
justice is not a four letter word
immasculization of words
slam is s-l-a-m
slolam
W=O=R=D=s
alms

temptation to piece together
this happens in lebanon, but not here, right?
her a kiss
everything happens here
including gender changes
and fireballs
Oklahoma
clangs and that
in OK CT
corralled in CT
what do we choose to remember
corralled in 88
whatever we choose to remember
what do we choose to forget
the 1s and 0s turned and attacked me
we choose to attack
who polices virtual reality
whoever can't say it that way anymore
but can we choose our attacker
no one
can choose
virtual police
Shawn as woman.
no one to crave the jar
we become the attacker
cave men
look under the hood!
and our heroins and our billyclubs patrol our insides, too
believe in language to the extent of disrespecting it
dys ris peect






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