From a poem performed this past Tuesday at New York City Hall NY by Ramya Ramana, the official Youth Poet Laureate of New York City:
“This is the moment when you make of your fist the same clench in your teeth, make of your tongue all the textbooks your school was not funded enough to provide you with, make of your fingerprints the first draft of a revolt, when the follicles of capitalism’s hips falls on your school like angel dust, an army of unbranded jungle mouths will shout and yell and the trinity will linger there too like an arena of thunderclaps, and I will be there too and I will wonder how a genocide of shredded trees somehow makes some people think they can somehow play god, and then I will further wonder what made white people so insecure that they will do everything to put us in the lion’s den…”
Ramana read another one of her poems several weeks ago during New York mayor Bill di Blasio’s inauguration.
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Chilling.
Jewish people should start getting out of NYC PDQ. IMHOP.
WASPs should follow.
We’ve all seen the pattern that follows the coming-to-power of a man like de Blasio. He will look for scapegoats as his policies bring misery, and the demagogue-like words of people like Ramana point the way to who the scapegoats are.
“an army of unbranded jungle mouths will shout and yell”
Lot of that going around.
Maybe what made white people so insecure is that this was tweeted from her Obama-phone….
Lookout, Maya Angelou.
Camelot:
“Ask not what your country can do for you…”
Cametoschoolalot:
“make of your tongue all the textbooks your school
was not funded enough to provide you with”
It would take Maya Angelou a Long. Long. Time. To. Read. That. Po. Em. Aloud.
Got my degree in English Lit and as far as I’m concerned that’s rubbish.
WTF is this crap? An official Youth Poet Laureate(?) who can’t express a rational thought regardless of the number of words employed? What I find disturbing (apart from di Blasio’s acceptance by New Yorkers) is his support for extreme left-wing ideology. And then there’s Warren Kinsella’s unabashed admiration of this very dangerous Marxist.
I don’t have my degree in anything, but, that crap is to poetry as voice of fire is to art.
“…the official Youth Poet Laureate of New York City…”
Well there’s yer problem.
I wonder how many people work in the office that’s in charge of selecting “the official Youth Poet Laureate of New York City”. My wild guess, at least ten.
I’ve seen better “poems” come out of a computer program setup to randomly select words using a Markov chain with word transition probabilities matching those of English writing. If this meaningless assemblage of words constitutes “poetry”, then I would suggest replacing all official “poets” with a far cheaper computer program which has many times the output of this malfunctioning piece of meatware and is orders of magnitude less irritating.
And she gets paid for this incoherent garbage. There really is one (thousands actually) born every minute.
Elevating the simple minded and ignorant to the status of official artist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdfRRtAs3o
Please tell me this isn’t a PAID position.
People who clearly have never heard of Yeats or Dickinson, that’s who.
She graduated from a school in NYC? Who helped her with the spelling?
Alright, let’s get that meme going:
I predict that Bill de Blasio will do more damage to New York City than Osama bin Laden did.
The voters of New York City have elected the lunatic fringe.
The New York City Liberals/proggs jealousy of Detroit has consumed the tiny amount of reason they were born with.
New York wants to emulate the policies and practises that made Detroit the shining example it is today.
I suspect the sewer rats produce better poetry, deep in the bowels of the city.
Quite certain I have never hurde,
a poem resembling so close a turd…
Sorry Mr Wordsworth….
In a new development, the quality of civilization’s poetry is now expected to go up when robots take it over.
Hey, ok. You’ve just been outed.
They did this same crap during the Dinkins disaster. For four years NYC teetered on the verge of collapse and race war. Dave played tennis and coddled cop killers. Four years later he was gone.
Paging Snake Pliskin…
Oh little darling..
Your School has funding problems because its run by Marxists who feed themselves first and leave table scraps for the kids..
Simply because you are the official youth poet of the official Marxist line does not make your work thoughtful.. It actually makes you an ass kisser.. Your public resume is not fit for prime time..
I’m gobsmacked. It seems to be just meaningless rambling with a few buzz words thrown in. Truly, Liberalism is a mental disease. Everyday I am more certain of it. There’s more poetry in the limerick “There once was a young man from Nantucket whose ….”
I thought it was lovely and appropriate.