July 11, 2006
We Old Dudes
We old dudes. We
White shoes. We
Golf ball. We
Eat mall. We
Soak teeth. We
Palm Beach; We
Vote red. We
Soon dead.
from Joan Murray at Poetry Magazine.
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Seriously…
This is terrible. It’s cool to be liberal but class conscious poetry should be reserved for mediocre college poetry-jam sessions.
Posted by: kiyoshi awazu | Jul 11, 2006 11:34:21 AM
I do believe it's meant as a take on Brooks' "We Real Cool". See: "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Posted by: Christine | Jul 11, 2006 1:06:04 PM
Christine is absolutely correct. It's an imitation of the Brooks poem, and not a half bad one at that. Poetry Magazine was perhaps the most significant journal of poetry in America in the 20th Century; it gave us the likes of Pound, Eliot, Stevens etc.
Posted by: Jonathan | Jul 11, 2006 6:18:04 PM
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