Monday, September 24, 2007

I find myself in poetry

" 'Poetry has been attacked by an ignorant and frightened bunch of bores who don't understand how it's made, and the trouble with these creeps' -- and here he's talking about professors, about people like me -- 'is they wouldn't know poetry if it came up and buggered them in broad daylight.' "

--my advisor, interrupting his reading of an Allen Ginsberg quotation to provide clarification during lecture

2 comments:

Kate said...

After it finishes, it says, "I'm poetry, bitch!" zips up, and walks away. THEN you know.

marn said...

i'm glad that 'buggered' has not yet left the list of common vocabulary