Sunday, September 16, 2007

New Write...


Depressed
(tentative title)

Lifeless thoughts
in endless subconscious
agony pierce through
her monotonous indifferent
disposition to break forth
a solo tear from the dry wells
of her empty eyes.

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I don't know if it makes any sense, I was feeling pretty down and out of it on Friday and this is what I preoccupied myself with while we where going over coordinating conjunctions. Stuff I haven't given a second glance at since 8th grade English. Seems my whole class of like 12 college students (including me) need a do-over in grammar. Our teacher had us look up the definitions of prepositions and parallelism and nouns and verbs, because less than half of us could remember. Which is kind of pathetic but it's understandable when we learned this stuff -what was it like 8 years ago? I just wish this chance to re-learn basic grammar had come in my 190 or 290 writing courses, not my 410 writing course thats an upper division level class. It would've been more helpful earlier on. I mean, what does it say when your in a junior/senior level course in college and can't spew out what a preposition is? At my school it was "anywhere a mouse can go" so I remembered that part. But sixth, seventh and eighth grade English classes were a
long time ago. What I remember about my sixth grade class - my teacher talked to her dolls in class. Yep. Oh and would give you detention and forget by the end of class why. Well that part wasn't so bad in the long run..

2 comments:

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

Cool, keep writing.

It sure is hard to remember that stuff you learned years ago. AK!

Heather said...

loved reading through your blog..