"(Remember: go straight to school
this is important, stop fooling around!
Don't answer to strangers. Stick
with your playmates. Keep your eyes down.)
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove* (PoLau '93-'95, special Bicentennial Consultant '99-'00)
As someone who isn't too adept at following all the rules, I love this poem. It reminds me that there are some that I really do need to follow, and some that will just never work because, well, they just don't fit for everyone.
*From The Poets Laureate Anthology
, published by W.W. Norton in association with the Library of Congress. Poem copyright Rita Dove.
this is important, stop fooling around!
Don't answer to strangers. Stick
with your playmates. Keep your eyes down.)
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove* (PoLau '93-'95, special Bicentennial Consultant '99-'00)
As someone who isn't too adept at following all the rules, I love this poem. It reminds me that there are some that I really do need to follow, and some that will just never work because, well, they just don't fit for everyone.
*From The Poets Laureate Anthology
, published by W.W. Norton in association with the Library of Congress. Poem copyright Rita Dove.
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