I just wrote an eight-hundred word essay about Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”. I’m just good like that, but I find it ridiculous to necessitate page-length for an analytical/critical essay. I could have written the essay in a much cleaner manner in one page, but have been forced by the goddamn university system to drag it out for three pages.

The ironic part is that I chose the shortest poem I could to simplify the analysis and screwed myself on material to analyze. I am triumphant, however. And I don’t have to read forty lines of meandering description.

And this pedantic breakdown of poetry ruins it for me, so I find myself a little depressed (L’petit mort, like after sex!) once the words have been dissected to the point of stupidity. Do people really need to have the subtle choice of words explained to them? I find it all quite natural and the need to be verbose and longwinded about it to be unnatural.

A picture of a uterus does not help me understand women more than I already do.

I get to write one of these in-class next week: I hope I can find something in the book worth exploring (and I’m able to properly dissect to their exacting requirements) in an hour and some change.

Once I get it back with a grade, I might post it.

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