Junkyard 1-4, Week 8?

Man no offense but that's some weak-ass thinking. You equivocating like a motherfucker. -Bubs; The Wire

1 in the air for the people in here.
2 in the air for the father thats there.
3 in the air for the kids in the ghetto.
4 for the kids that don't want to be there.
none for the niggas tryn to hold them back.
5 in the air for the teachers not scared to tell them kids that are livin in the ghetto with the nigga's holden'em back that the world is theirs. - Lupe Fiasco

She's just so relentlessly positive. A complete foil to me. I think I'm gonna marry her. Or at least torture myself with the idea of her. Either is fine with me. -(A fairly intoxicated) Benjamin.

Your not obliged to swallow anything you despise. Those unrelenting buzzards want your life. And they got no right, as sure as you have eyes, they got no right. -The Shins.

Free Write 1, Week 7

The Perfect Bar.

The bar must be secluded, intimate for conversation yet still retain a certain amount of interesting people. People with stories of their adventures as longshoreman in The North, people of the Wharf and surf. Or even people who can explain the geometry of billiards or how the engine block works. Next, the beer must be cheep and you must befriend the bartenders. These two 'musts' are the result of a single purpose, money. I don't want to spend a lot of it when I buy drinks and if the bartender likes you enough they might give you the freebie once in a while. Also misconduct and non-gentlemen like behavior can be handled void of Law enforcement. The last requirement is that it must be an environment of joy and not of depression or anger. I wish to see no sad saps crying into their gin and fizz nor do i wish to be accosted by a drunken youth. I wish to be in peace, in a place that unconsciously opens the mind and makes you think of strangers as people, with the aid of liquid courage.

Calistenic 1, Week 7

1) Why is the check engine light always on?
-Because the engine always wanted the be the transmission.
-Because they no longer teach auto shop in school anymore.
-Because the shady yuppie you bought it from is a strict capitalist.
-Because the car won't pass emissions unless the light is off and you can't see if the new thousand dollar part for the car works unless you drive it around, but you can't drive it around until you get a new tag which you won't get unless you pass emissions.
-Because the car is a terrorist and emotionally withholding.
-Because its a BMW, "The ultimate driving machine" and hipsters love irony.
-Because you just can't have a convertible and have it in working condition, cosmicly speaking.
-Because the car believes that it can make it in the world based on its looks and luck.
-Because the arrogant owner did not offer the proper gasoline, steal and leather sacrifice to the car Gods.

Junkyard 1-4, Week 7

"In the old days people used to study to better themselves. Now they study to impress others." -Confucius.

"Well that's just a part of it". -Pop

'I was watching a television program before, with a kind of roving moderator who spoke to a seated panel of young women who were having some sort of problem with their boyfriends - apparently, because the boyfriends had all slept with the girlfriends' mothers. And they brought the boyfriends out, and they fought, right there on television. Toby, tell me: these people don't vote, do they?'Jeb Bartlet; The West Wing

"so lets talk about this hypothetical pizza." -Roommate

Response 2, Week 6: Erickson

Erickson the structure of this work is very complex, yet you handle it gracefully. The expansion of the poems lines creates tension as you read the stanza, if the reader didn’t cheat and look at the bottom of the stanza, it’s my favorite part. What I love most about this poem is the emotion reaction it creates for the reader through the tension, you literally feel something as your eyes scan the page and it was very well structured. I feel as though the images could have been a little richer and thus added to the drama of the piece, but that can be easily done upon review of the work. Well done sir.

Response 1, Week 6; Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth, as you have read from me, I am in love with southern culture and the imagery that your writing presents was fantastic. I love how you started off the work with the phrase ‘Northern Aggression’ and followed up this lament by capitalizing the phrase. This really creates an emphasis on the confusion between northern and southern culture and enhances the tension between the speaker and the person being addressed. Next I’d like to say that your ‘southern’ images are spot on. The red clay, used tires and fried green tomatoes really create a sense of authenticity and you handled the cataloguing of these images with grace. The humor used also created a very enjoyable read.

Calisthenic 1, Week 6. Object Studies: A pen

"Are you the kind of person who brings more than one writing utensil to class because apparently I'm the kind of person who doesn't bring any writing utensils to class".


Pens
Rolling pin cylindrical, Keys to many mental cell, O' liberator of thought.
I'll jam you into the heart of the page and set free the life.
Once, in high school, I was stabbed in the back with a pencil.
If we could, we'd save the world from its misery, slaying page after page.
Alas we cannot. For it seems I have forgotten you on the bus.


I used the prompt in the back of the section 1 exercises.