In response to Brooke's "Underlife" with my students today . . .
Twitter, twitter
Tweet, tweet
About what's being said -
But in critique of it
Cuz critique is not
Engagement here.
Underlife then,
On a social network,
Heavily engaged
But "disruptive"
Surveillance begins.
Conversation moves
Deeper
Under
And becomes deeply engaged
Away from watchers.
Quietly engaged.
Under the radar
While "teacher" looks into backs of laptops
Convincing herself that students
Know their roles, their positionality.
Their place.
As receivers of knowledge rather than makers.
I love this! I especially like how you used "cuz" to make it seem informal when speaking about the students. The last line had a great impact, too. I think it ended amazingly!
ReplyDeleteI like it! I made post a poem this week too after reading yours :)
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