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My son channels Brautigan and Ginsberg

  • May. 27th, 2009 at 9:04 PM
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I found out tonight that Matthew writes poetry at school.  When I finally got to read them, I was startled at how lovely and abstract they are and how beat-ish.  I'm putting some here, too, because I'm proud of him.  My favorites are the last three.

(and you can all just suck it up. :P )

Me Almost Getting Run Over

The music took me to the wild
And I almost got run over by a rhino
And a chimpanzee
And a saber-tooth tiger
Because they hate people who are not from the wild.
But there were more animals
There was an elephant
And a chimpanzee monster king.


1998 India

The smell of Indian spice
The sound takes me to India
Dancing around the fire.
I feel like I'm above the fire
It smells spicy.
It's 1:00 AM in India
Because it's 9:00 here.


Gold is Cool

Gold snowboards into the house.
He was born under a mushroom.
He wears green pants and a gold shirt.


I Look into the World

I look into the world and I see
A black-headed
Lemon-eyed duck.
I see an anteater.
This world is cool!!!

The world we live in is cool.


Sounds

I'm a saber-tooth tiger munching on some berries.
I am the lightning of a storm.
I am red.
I am the sounds of the ocean and the tides.

Matthew - 2009




Comments

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[info]jackshoegazer wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 04:17 am (UTC)
These are really awesome. Hell, this is a LOT better than most of the crap I had to endure in my creative writing class last semester.
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[info]labelle77 wrote:
May. 29th, 2009 01:27 am (UTC)
As a fellow sufferer of creative writing classes, I concur. Although some of the crap I had to endure back then came from my own pen, as it were.
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[info]nutopian wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 04:17 am (UTC)
these are great. i love "gold is cool"!
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[info]syncopatedlife wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 05:37 am (UTC)
love it!
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[info]absolutcalm wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 07:17 am (UTC)
As if his "I'm gonna STAY laid as a teenager" stock couldn't get any higher... He play guitar yet?
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[info]labelle77 wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 07:22 am (UTC)
He's working on it. Piano, too. And, dude's had TWO girlfriends already. I don't think there was any gettin' any just yet tho. I hope.
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[info]encore_plus wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 01:19 pm (UTC)
I can't imagine being any more excited about Matthew's poetry.

I'm going to be telling everyone 'The world we live in is cool' today.


My favourite is "Me Almost Getting Run Over".
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[info]greenjonessoda wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 01:31 pm (UTC)
Ha! Those are great, thanks for sharing them! =)
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[info]evilbobrex wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 01:43 pm (UTC)
I don't know how to say this
encourage this?
enliven this?
I forget how old he is, but no matter, the ability to express oneself through the written word is the most important skill. it builds our ability to express ourselves orally. it enables us to be understood.
Wow.

I had a friend once, well, she was a member of a group I was in charge of, she was fifteen, sixteen, she wrote this prose, the most beautiful, deep, poetic expression of her feelings. I read it and almost cried. she had written about an experience she had because of me, because of my work. and her eloquence, her style, her words were filled with such depth.
she could have been one of the great writers of our time, and she still may be. but she's working for the peace corps now, and she's gotten a masters in environmental issues stuff. and I know for certain that every paper she wrote held at least some kernel of that writing. and I know that beauty of expression has helped her each day.
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[info]labelle77 wrote:
May. 29th, 2009 01:25 am (UTC)
He's seven, just finishing up second grade. I'm doing my damndest to encourage him, although he says despite everyone telling him how good these are and his teacher saying he's the best writer in the class, he says he doesn't enjoy writing. I'll try though, but not enough for it to be a negative power struggle.
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[info]antarcticlust wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 01:59 pm (UTC)
This is fantastic - what a wonderful, healthy coping mechanism, too!
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[info]world_rim_walke wrote:
May. 28th, 2009 04:19 pm (UTC)
You're raising a young poet! Awesome!

Also, you're giving him exactly the sort of eclectic history a poet needs.
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[info]marciagirl wrote:
May. 29th, 2009 01:12 am (UTC)
you should collect a whole bunch of these and see if you can get them published. They are sooo cool!!
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Jul. 4th, 2009 07:55 am (UTC)
OMG
can i keep him? haha! these are great!
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