29 August 2009

Four-Paragraph Descriptive Essay

brown boy spins
limbs spread
a twirling human asterisk


on a swivel-seat office chair
in the street
spun by hydrant water


white teeth laugh
at flying bricks


wet brown boy.


-- ilyse kazar. written 24 July 1980 in rebellion against, it seems, all the four paragraph essays I was forced to write for years, yet somehow still true to the form

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