today we engaged in creating an “exquisite corpse” - writing the first line of a poem and allowing each person in the class to write the next lines - only in such a thing can you get this level of ridiculousness and vampire imagery. i thought i’d share it:

On explaining the Origin of Love,

I would start with the love of Adam & Eve

The shattered bite pulsed blood through hollow veins, not too full

He sucked the life out of her; dead

and there she lay, cold and still

not quite alive, not quite dead, in a beautiful state

there stays the beautiful girl

she is hidden from the world -

she is an Anne Frank impersonator

needless to say, she doesn’t get out much

always home, wasting, wasting, wasting away

i’m a balloon, i’ll float to the sky.

so free like a seagull

until alkaseltzer thrown by hoodlums arrives in the sand

a gang of gramps with colored suspenders 

trying to be trendy, but failing obviously

yearning to fit the mold of society

a constant striving - a yearning for Peace.