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While mingling at the open mic event,
I met a student, charming and well-meant,
who told me she had come since she’d been sent
by her professor as an assignment.

“Are you an English major then?” I asked.
“Oh, no,” she said, “it’s social sciences.”
A bit surprised, I asked why she’d been tasked
to form such poetic alliances.

“New to the area, I thought it wise
to go to listed readings where I’d find
a local subculture to scrutinize,”
which was the project that she’d been assigned.

"And here, all along, I had been thinking
we were the culture," ... guess we've been sinking.






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The quickest way for me to learn something new is to first understand why I'd like to learn it.


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The following comments are for "Subculture?"
by poeteye

couth klatches
heh heh ....

made me think about submarines and if you'd been scuttled. How talented you are to tell this tale so cleverly in rhyme and deliver a deft punch line. Noel Coward would be proud.

( Posted by: Pen [Member] On: July 22, 2012 )

poeteye's culture
Whatever a society cultivates at the time of the cultivation is the "culture". And right now, it's not poetry. It's social media and guns used for massacres in movie theaters.
When in school, we are taught that poetry is part of the culture. And then, we leave school.
I would propose another spin on subculture and submarines and sinking, as I find these images offensive to the grandeur of poetry.
I would propose that "sub-culture" be defined as "root". Under the culture. Under the above-ground growth. Poetry as chakra number one. Ya think? Poetry as that from which all beauty rises.
Poeteye, I take poetry seriously, even if I take myself not seriously. For me, poetry will always be in its "golden age", as its beauty is timeless.
Now, having said all that, I think I'm gonna go do a social sciences project by hanging out at the stock market, in the subculture of finance.

Thanks for the gracious levity your sonnet provides.

Lucie

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: July 22, 2012 )

Sadly enough
there is no hyperculture, supraculture, surculture, ultraculture or
uberculture.

( Posted by: poeteye [Member] On: July 22, 2012 )

culturegrams





Jesus is credited with being supracultural. I failed at monoculture... with my lawn. All you need is a hammer and you can fit any peg in any hole.

Always expect the unexpected

( Posted by: Fairplay [Member] On: July 22, 2012 )

Another gem James!
You never fail to delight me James with your original...sometimes quirky...view of life's circumstances, be it humourous, quizzical or just plain common sense!

And ALWAYS food for thought, however mundane or a just plain "slice of life " in an entertaining, but thought provoking way.

A fun read!

Bea



( Posted by: Beatrice Boyle [Member] On: July 22, 2012 )

e-sot Eric
Eric, you are correct! Until today I had never heard or read the word supracultural. Now, I'll have to use it in a poem, I suppose. However, even as I write this, the auto spell check is telling me that supraculture is not a word. Now I know better. Thanks.

( Posted by: Poeteye [Member] On: July 22, 2012 )

Surprisingly enough
I have been called quirky before, Bea. Thank you for the compliments.

( Posted by: Poeteye [Member] On: July 23, 2012 )

Culture
I had laugh at this piece. My uneducated view is 'Culture' must be a thing in which you can immerse yourself and then by extension those of common interest. By doing that you build something worthy by the intent you put into it. Poetry, Art, Music etc. all require the agreement that they are important. Social science, psychology, and on would dissect any human occupation as quantifiable, and breaking it down to trivialities and fictional premisses - oh I may have just done her work for her. I do hope she liked the poetry or would that be counterproductive for her assignment?
Enjoyed!!!
Ken

( Posted by: jonpenny [Member] On: July 25, 2012 )

Participant
Yes, Ken. Not only did Brittany enjoy the reading, she got up and read two by Robert Frost, but I found her reasoning for seeking out poetry readings more inspirational than "stopping by the woods on a snowy evening."
It stuck with me all the more, because she said her instructor approved her choice of subculture. Alas!

( Posted by: Poeteye [Member] On: July 26, 2012 )





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