used condoms

a mermaid’s song

howling

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by

madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn

looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly

connection to the starry dynamo in the machin-

ery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat

up smoking in the supernatural darkness of

cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities

contemplating jazz,

who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and

saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene-

ment roofs illuminated,

who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes

hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy

among the scholars of war,

who were expelled from the academies for crazy &

publishing obscene odes on the windows of the

skull,

- Allen Ginsberg

from: “Howl”

howling What is the poet feeling?

1) Writer: Writing, creating, mechanics

2) Beat-Keeper- Rhythm, performance

3) Editor- Analysis, editing, writing

Groups:

1) Get into groups with a Writer, Beat-Keeper, and a Director.

2) Writer will assure that the content matches the theme

3) Beat-Keeper will assure that the rhythm accentuates the idea, and recite

4) Editor is responsible for the quality of the final product

I grow old … I grow old …I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the wavesCombing the white hair of the waves blown backWhen the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown.

–T.S. Eliot, from: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

mermaid’s song

What feeling does this inspire in you?

1) Interpreter: Analysis, symbolism

2) Performer: Acting, speaking

3) Producer: Directing, Observation

Groups:

1) Get into groups with an interpreter, performer, & producer

2) Interpreters will identify the tone

3) Producers will direct & evaluate the performer

4) Performers will portray the tone by acting

tip toe

tiptoeing thru the used condomsstrewn on the piers off the west side highway sunset behind the skyline of jersey walking towards the water with a fetus holding court in my gut my body hijacked my tits swollen and sore the river has more colors at sunset then my sock drawer ever dreamed of i could wake up screaming sometimes but i don't

i could step off the end of this pier but i got shit to do and an appointment on tuesdayto shed uninvited blood and tissue i'll miss you i say to the river to the water to the son or daughter i thought better of i could fall in love with jersey at sunset but i leave the view to the rats and tiptoe back

-ani difranco, 1995

used condoms

What do you see in your mind?

What have we missed?

tip toe

tiptoeing thru the used condomsstrewn on the piers off the west side highway sunset behind the skyline of jersey walking towards the water with a fetus holding court in my gut my body hijacked my tits swollen and sore the river has more colors at sunset then my sock drawer ever dreamed of i could wake up screaming sometimes but i don't

i could step off the end of this pier but i got shit to do and an appointment on tuesdayto shed uninvited blood and tissue i'll miss you i say to the river to the water to the son or daughter i thought better of i could fall in love with jersey at sunset but i leave the view to the rats and tiptoe back

-ani difranco, 1995

What do you

hear?

tip toe

tiptoeing thru the used condomsstrewn on the piers off the west side highway sunset behind the skyline of jersey walking towards the water with a fetus holding court in my gut my body hijacked my tits swollen and sore the river has more colors at sunset then my sock drawer ever dreamed of i could wake up screaming sometimes but i don't

i could step off the end of this pier but i got shit to do and an appointment on tuesdayto shed uninvited blood and tissue i'll miss you i say to the river to the water to the son or daughter i thought better of i could fall in love with jersey at sunset but i leave the view to the rats and tiptoe back

-ani difranco, 1995

1) Readers: Reading, Articulation, Speaking

2) Signalers: Listening

3) Markers: Reading, Observation

Groups:

1) Get into groups with a Reader, Signaler, & Marker

2) Readers will read the poem

3) Signaler will signal on word music

4) Marker will note music on poem