|
Past Participle (or, Breaking Up with the English Teacher)
by Bruce W Niedt
Dangling,
fragmented,
infinitively,
to have been subjuncted to this
verbiage.
She
pronouns this whole affair,
which is dead,
her adjective view colored, skewed,
declining to hear your preposition
in or around any person
(you or her, I think).
No longer superlative,
this is the worst of loves,
a dead metaphor in the water,
as trite as a simile.
So,
at this conjunction,
your passive voice is ignored.
A tense situation as it was,
is, and always will be
no matter what you interject.
Damn!
Things are looking
grammar every day.
10/08/2001 Author's Note: [First published in Mad Poets REview, Vol. 18, Fall 2003.]
Posted on 10/08/2001
Copyright © 2025 Bruce W Niedt
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Cathlyn Cartier on 11/17/02 at 07:53 PM You went further with English grammar and form than I ever dreamed of... even when I was teaching it at the middle school level... Great work |
| Posted by Lindsay Sanders on 11/27/03 at 02:17 AM a wonderful, intriguing poem. congrats on it's publication! |
| Posted by Maureen Glaude on 12/14/03 at 01:45 AM wow. Maybe he just didn't belong to her class?
it's amazing, fun and so intelligent. Kudos |
| Posted by Richard Trotter on 01/17/04 at 08:16 AM a clever and entertaining read |
| Posted by Laura Doom on 04/24/04 at 02:20 PM Yes - I can see the similar hilarity here. An excellent syntactical piece of mind :) Comparatively superlative treatment of the subject in achieving your object. |
| Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 04/28/04 at 06:06 AM this is incredible... what a perfect grammar, er, grade school, er... participle lesson... very very creative... blessings... |
| Posted by Charles J Hannan on 04/28/04 at 04:06 PM This is a wonderful poem...No wonder it was published... |
| Posted by Charles E Minshall on 06/14/04 at 04:08 AM Funtastic Bruce...Charlie |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 02/10/05 at 02:55 PM Crafty, clever, amusing work Bruce. Don't know how I missed this one, but glad I got to read it through the random poems section on PPS's home page. Kudos! |
| Posted by Joan Serratelli on 05/09/06 at 09:57 PM I was an English major and a real stickler on grammar....i LOVE this- it really made me smile! GREAT work- I can understand why it was published! |
| Posted by Delilah Coyne on 06/10/06 at 12:28 PM An amazing piece of writing. |
| Posted by Leonard M Hawkes on 01/29/08 at 05:47 AM As an English teacher, I'm just glad someone can still talk in these terms--and so cleverly! |
| Posted by Jared Fladeland on 03/15/08 at 03:11 PM this is so mad fun |
| Posted by Erin Eymard on 04/17/08 at 04:18 PM I love the way you played with grammar! Yet another Bruce Niedlt delight!! ~Erin |
| Posted by Dave Fitzgerald on 02/28/09 at 01:47 PM Great last line. Congrats on POTD Bruce. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 02/28/09 at 03:36 PM Great to see this as POTD! |
| Posted by Laurie Blum on 02/28/09 at 03:55 PM This just put a smile on my face this morning! Great piece Bruce! Congrats on POTD! |
| Posted by Mo Couts on 06/04/11 at 06:39 PM Clever, witty, all sorts of awesome! |
|
