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March 6th, 2008

The poem below is from senior Sam Chiron, who is a Political Science major. Sam is taking Jane Shore’s Advanced Poetry (117W) class, and this poem is the result of a fugue assignment.

Spinnning for Jessica

the teacher is a spinning smile is too skinny spinning yelling “keep spinning”
i am spinning, the teacher is spinning, the thin people are legs spinning.

spinning legs molded to spinning hips at the spinning joint are spinning, the teacher
is a spinning smile is too skinny spinning yelling “keep spinning keep climbing ”
i am spinning, the teacher is spinning, the thin people are legs spinning.

bodies spinning sweating and steaming
keep their legs spinning, the teacher
is a spinning smile is too skinny spinning yelling “keep spinning keep climbing keep spinning”
i am spinning, the teacher is spinning, the thin people are legs spinning.

thin people are legs spinning, impassioned spinning legs
thaw into groans spinning into a searing boil
a person stops spinning, the teacher
is a spinning smile is too skinny spinning yelling “hurry the fuck up keep spinning”
i am spinning, the teacher is spinning, the thin people are legs spinning.


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