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Sunday, April 20, 2014

The Minds of Isabela, Wang Fang, Tokyo, and Elizabeth

Today I spent the afternoon with my Asian brother (Tokyo), Asian sister (Wang Fang), and my asain sister's friend (Elizabeth) from the North East (But not the Asian East...)

Here is a poem we wrote together:

In 1347,
a child went to leaven
His bread upon his Jewish family table
But this is what happened instead
The mouse made him dead
And then he was no longer able

The mouse went next door
And then he spread the black plague all over the floor
the floor was in Constantinople
 A Mongol then came
And invented a game
The outcome didn't look too hopeful

 Pope Gregory brought the papacy back
Cuz da otha' popes had cut too much slack
Though he tried to resolve the schisms
The Frenchies were mean
To the Eastern fiends
And so they were thrown into prison.

The religion was swept to the side
And baroque rolled in with the tide.
The art was kinda sketchy
And though it was plain
That the pope was no game,
They liked their pasta zesty....

5 comments:

  1. It's a pretty odd poem too...I guess that's what happens when four people are all talking at the same time...trying to rhyme...and be historically accurate at the same time...

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