it's a sad, dingy strip mall
and it's closing down
after today
the red shopping cart
with the errant wheel
will remain
the holiday half-off sale
will strengthen and
never end
the greasy fingerprints
on toddler-level glass
are tattooed
the two bolted benches
covered in gum
will harden
the pristine lanscaping
over-run by weeds
now racing
the empty parking lot
marred by stripes
you painted
About Me
- Professor G
- My students call me Professor G. I am in my third year as an English language and literature professor at the University level and I honestly love my (underpaying) job. I teach: Remedial English, English Composition, Research & Writing, World Lit. I: Short Stories & the Novel, World Lit. II: Poetry & Drama, and Spanish I (just for some extra flavor). This semester, Spring 2012, I am trying a new tactic with my three sections of ENG 120: English Composition--I will not lecture. I am defining a lecture as me, the professor, monologuing (with or without visual aids and notes) for more than 10 minutes. Follow my journey as I chronicle the successes and failures as I experiment with taking the lecture out of the classroom.
3 comments:
i painted the stripes...
not for attention for myself
but to bring color and liveliness to the strip mall
the grass will be uprooted and all will be well...
we live in a concrete jungle...hardened with lost hopes.
~Wombat
we should write call and response poetry more often...
sounds good to me!
my stuffs on lj
<3 wombat
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