TEACHING FOR THE CITY

CORRESPONDENCES, COMPOSITIONAL MISCUES,
AND OTHER SUNDRY DISPATCHES FROM
THE EDUCATIONAL WILDERNESS

Jovon`s Book of Poetry

Haiku

Man with beard for face

I do not like you at all

Do quit your day job

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Sonnet

This long as “H”

I refuse

May I go to the bathroom yet?

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Ode To English Class

I thought odes were supposed to be about things you liked

Not hated

THE END

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ABAB Rhyme Scheme (min. 6 lines)

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Mr. Crucial bends over

When he’s at the zoo

(Don’t care ‘bout the minimum)

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Free Verse

Yous [sic] a lame for calling anything in this prison-cell of a classroom “free”

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Name Poem

J ust

O nce

V eer into 

O ncoming traffic.

N ow, please.