Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I Am a Special Kind of Coward
I am a special kind of coward
I have all the warm and soft bits
the bits that sing the songs,
and hug and kiss and love
and laugh laugh laugh
and do all the joyful dancing
and I have the wet and weighty bits
the bits that cry the tears
and hope and hurt and dream
and bleed bleed bleed
and do all the heavy longing
but I lack the nut-and-bolty bits
the bits that pay the bills
or earn or plan or save
or 8 to 5 to 8 to 5 to 8 to 5
or do all the busy marching
and here is where the fear begins
"the marching"
like maybe I'm just half a man
like all the juicy fleshy parts
but none of the skeleton
which is why I say I'm spineless
- J. S. Guy
I have all the warm and soft bits
the bits that sing the songs,
and hug and kiss and love
and laugh laugh laugh
and do all the joyful dancing
and I have the wet and weighty bits
the bits that cry the tears
and hope and hurt and dream
and bleed bleed bleed
and do all the heavy longing
but I lack the nut-and-bolty bits
the bits that pay the bills
or earn or plan or save
or 8 to 5 to 8 to 5 to 8 to 5
or do all the busy marching
and here is where the fear begins
"the marching"
like maybe I'm just half a man
like all the juicy fleshy parts
but none of the skeleton
which is why I say I'm spineless
- J. S. Guy
Labels:
cowards,
growing up,
literature,
paper mache,
poetry
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Friday, June 15, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
I'm Glad I'm a Boy, I'm Glad I'm a Girl
So I was introduced to my favorite book in a class where my professor was trying to make the point about texts being a relic through which we can study the social atmosphere at the time the text was produced because several prevailing social attitudes will be present in the text. Anyway, that said the reason it is my favorite book is because i think that it is funny. So funny. It is a children's book and it is absolutely sexist. I am not sure if it is trying to make some sort of ironic point or if it is straightforward sexist. I guess you would have to know more about Whitney Darrow Jr. to answer that. I have a digital copy of all of the pages that I got by request from my professor, and one of my good good friends printed it up at Kinko's and made a pseudo book for me for my birthday, so if anyone wants to read it just let me know.
Or you can buy it on the internet for $249.95.
No, for reals that is the going rate. It's not everyday that you find a children's book that has increased in value about 50,000%.
By the way, it is called
I'm Glad I'm a Boy, I'm Glad I'm a Girl.
Or you can buy it on the internet for $249.95.
No, for reals that is the going rate. It's not everyday that you find a children's book that has increased in value about 50,000%.
By the way, it is called
I'm Glad I'm a Boy, I'm Glad I'm a Girl.
Labels:
birthday fun,
literature,
mechanical beds,
misogyny
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