PERMISSIONS: To view the blog, post on it, and comment on posts, you must be invited. I will send you an email invitation to join the blog, and then you must follow the instructions to join up and begin posting. You can't join the blog without first creating a Google account.

POSTING: Post your poems by clicking "New Post" at the top right of the page. Paste your poem into the window.

LABELING: Then label the post with the assignment name (i.e., "confessional poem," "sonnet," etc.), your name (i.e., "Tony Barnstone," etc.), and the week (i.e., "week one," "week two," but not "week 1"--spell out your numbers). If you post a poem in week two that is due in week three, label it "week three." When you begin to type in a label, the program will fill it in for you, so your post will be labeled with the rest of the poems in the same category.

COMMENTING: Afterwards, you can "comment" on the posts of your classmates. Post "group one" and "group two" one-page critical responses as "comments" on the posted poems, but also print out copies for me and for the poet and give them to us in class.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Adolescent Siren Song

If Britney Spears lays one more track
I think I’ll have a heart attack.
If she goes out and shaves her head
the men will flee her silky bed.

She may not have been innocent
but at sixteen seemed heaven sent
She wiggled thrusted; soft core porn,
in that infamous uniform.

Oh how we see the mighty fall
she’d filled the Royal Albert Hall
her work with Disney just a waste
with Miley Cyrus she’s replaced.

If you’re one of her die-hard fans
then just ignore this silly pan,
forgive me in my little joke
at least she wasn’t caught with coke. . .
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  1. michael knoxMay 12, 2009 at 10:12 AM

    Haha, this is definitly a change in style of writing. From over use of wood this semester i figured you would write something different but I really like this poem. It is fun and enjoyable. I don't have to seriously think to hard about the poem, and the funny story it tells is truth. I hate Britney Spears and everything and i loved the soft core porn part cause when we were all kids she was dancing in the school girl outfit and i know every guy loved it.
    The couplet tetrameter is what makes the poem work so well. It is a continuous get to the point in each line and that is what is needed for a lighter, funnier poem like this one. I didn't notice it the first time i read the piece, but when i say your labels and looked back over it I saw how strong it made the poem. She isn't a pop icon anymore and she is replaced and has been a couple times. The Miley Cyrus line is perfect to show how the everything can be replaced even a girl who ones grasped the nation.
    Funny line when you said is she shaves her head the men will flee. It was a great line and i just thought of all the images where she looked like a bald eagle and thought to myself she still gets publicity bald. It pissed me off then too, why does she deserve this shit when she uses a voice synthesizer to do her singing. funny poem man i liked it.

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