this is not a poem//

response to Anne E. Wood.
Prompt: Write a creative piece in the form of a list of statements reflecting your own views on writing/ society and the self. Remember that you are writers and it is your task to reflect on this time and place in a creative way.

This is not a Poem//


//We all are absorbed with the Oscars/ With the dresses and tuxes/ And I guess we aren’t ignoring/ What’s happening overseas/ It’s subtlety mentioned in their acceptance// Environmentally they are making an effort/ An Inconvenient Truth/ An attempt to be green/ Even Biota bottles made from corn/ At least they are trying// But it’s still all glitz and glamour/ Who wore what designer/ Why is Judge Reinhold even there?/ Ellen is hosting/ But they are the most diverse// I guess we can ignore homelessness/ Ignore poverty/ Ignore the debt of our country/ Ignore the failure of our system/ Right under our noses// It’s more fun to focus on shiny/ focus on gold/ focus on film/ focus on reel life/ focus on what might be//
2.25.07

augh, poetry!