Did you know that Obama started out at Occidental before transferring?
Did you know that he submitted poetry to Occidental's Literary Magazine?
Hopefully, I don't think that's what he got in for. He was probably stoned when he wrote this and thought everyone looked like Apes when he would go to the underground gatherings and talk (I know he did that later in college, but I don't know if he did also at Occidental.... underground meetings were for radical get-togethers I hear).
Did you know that he submitted poetry to Occidental's Literary Magazine?
Hopefully, I don't think that's what he got in for. He was probably stoned when he wrote this and thought everyone looked like Apes when he would go to the underground gatherings and talk (I know he did that later in college, but I don't know if he did also at Occidental.... underground meetings were for radical get-togethers I hear).
UndergroundUnder water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Credit: Paul Vermeersch. He's a poet and editor. Check out his blog.
3 comments:
i could have never known ombama was such a handsome young boy back then.
The fruit they were eating were mangoes, which is commonly misinterpreted as bananas. The reason being is the dual inflection of symbolism, which represents struggle and woe.
-jon stewart
he is very endearing
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