Keeps The Doctor Away
I'm at work. I taught my six classes of the day. I have two recommendations to do plus lots of other paperwork. Also, I need to breathe. My Pandora station is playing Lonely People by America. I am trying to chill and yet I can't get too relaxed. There are "miles to go before I sleep."
Why do intelligent people mock poetry? Recently I heard two different PHDs speak and cite a poem. They each felt obliged to mock the poem. One handed out a source sheet including an Amichai prose poem. He said that he didn't get why it was a poem. "Ich veis...when I was a kid I was taught that poems rhyme..." Sigh. The other presenter discussed a poem by Robert Frost and joked that he gave it out because he had the urge to share a poem and didn't think people wanted to hear his rendition of I Had A Little Teapot.
Today a student gave me an apple. I don't think that's ever happened to me before. Many years ago a school I worked in gave every teacher a pencil for Chanukah. The pencil said "Thanks!" on it and included a picture of an apple. At the end of the year I once received the gift of a crystal apple. But today I received a real apple.
This student (we'll call her Sara) eats a giant apple every day. It's a honeycrisp. And today she brought one for me. I am a fan of fruit but don't eat as much of it as I should. Part of that might be because the plain old stuff I know about doesn't appeal to me. This was one amazing apple!
It's a few minutes to minchah. I'm thinking about apples. There was an apple that was jealous of the stars. When it was ripe it fell to the ground and split in half. And inside it there was a star!
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 3:08 PM
6 Comments:
Why do intelligent people mock poetry?
Probably b/c they're afraid of seeming uncool. They're too insecure to admit they appreciate it. Or perhaps they really don't like poetry. Also, some poetry is really obscure and hard to get, so people suspect it's a scam, like modern art or something.
Interesting points, one in particular rings right.
Which one?
"They're too insecure to admit they appreciate it."
Or maybe even to allow themselves to appreciate it.
I love local apples in the fall. They are so totally different than ones that have been stored for a while. They burst like fireworks when you bite in. Yum.
Was that apple a Honeycrisp? That's the only variety I know that ends in -crisp.
And: poetry must rhyme???? What epoch did this genius hail from? Fie!
i checked with the student (before seeing this and was planning to correct it - one of these days - in the text. yes, it's honey crisp.
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