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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word " protein"
Interview Questions Involving Protein & Faith
ReplyDeleteI.
Could you tell us how you would work with
The immigrant population?
What goes through my head is:
Talk about putting people in a category
Like the fact that you packed up from one place
Moved to another place
For any one of a hundred reasons
Makes you an entity
You are immigrant
Pass customs
Stamp of approval
English lessons at night school
Where you are again immigrant
You were a doctor or a teacher or fixed clocks
Or cared for the elderly or worked
Any of a thousand jobs
The way the world oscillates and burns
You tell yourself it will be like school
You figure it will be like college
If you work hard
Study all night
Go without meat sleep luxuries
Maybe you will graduate in three years
If you get lazy
The ususal four
I do not say what I'm thinking
II.
Back to the interview
Next question:
Faith hope love
Of the three
Which one is the most important
Quickly now
Right off the top of your head
Whatever comes first
I give myself two seconds
Surprise myself with my answer
Hope
Hope
I don't know precisely why
I wouldn't chose love or faith
(Who doesn't like love or faith)
It's just now
Afer fifty-six years on the planet
(The only planet I've known
as far as I can tell)
Hope has stood ground
Hope opened my eyes in the morning
Hope lent me a pillow at night
In between hope pulsed
Like a good sun
Prayed-for rain
Favorite number
I cannot give you another other explanation
That one was from my heart
It will have to suffice
SPIRALING OUTWARD FROM
ReplyDeleteNOTRE DAME AND FRIBOURG
protein
-> amino acid
-> building block
-> muscle
-> fascia
-> Rolfing
-> Ida Pauline Rolf
-> Barnard College
-> Boston College
-> Mary Daly
-> Outercourse
-> The Voyage of Outercourse is Metapatriarchal Time/Space Travel, which takes the shape of quadruple Spiraling. Its parts (Spirals) describe clusters of Moments, each involving/requiring gigantic qualitative leaps into Other dimensions of the Background.
-> gigantic leaps
-> happiness
-> performance
-> audience
-> Gene
-> ancestors
-> hunting
-> diet
-> protein
- Mike Fedel
May, 2013