Wednesday 30 November 2011

Challenge 24

159. "The instructor said,/Go home and write/a page tonight./And let that page come out of you,/Then, it will be true." The second line of this poem by Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B," goes on to ask: "I wonder if it's that simple?" We ask you here to write a truthful page about yourself, beginning where Hughes begins: "I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem./I went to school there, then Durham, then here/to this college on the hill above Harlem./I am the only colored student in my class." That is to say, each of us is at a certain stage of life and has a history. Each of us has lived somewhere and gone to school. We each are what we feel and see and hear, as the poem goes on to say. Begin there and see what happens. (University of Chicago)


Yes. <---That is my answer. 
Oh, is my answer irrelevant to the question? That is the question's fault for being unbearably long and your problem because you are the one reading, not me. I'm the one that's writing. Not a tiny bit of conflict for myself for my answer not making any sense to the question. I don't care. I'm an old-enough, independent teenager. I'm tough enough to do what I want to do and stand up for my own rights. As a free human being, I would like to speak up bravely that this question is long and not straightforward and I refuse to answer it. Such sophistication is not acceptable in such an already sophisticated period of my lifetime. 
My girlfriend is bothering me now. I'm doing this blog on my laptop and she wants to check facebook on her laptop, but still she doesn't know her own password because I changed it and only I know it and she is insisting me to type it so she can log on. So I'll just enter the password and come back. But I don't really want to because she is one of the facebook addicts and it's exam time - she has to study, not go on facebook and waste her life. I'm so worried about her. If she fails this exam, she'll get kicked out of the school and will break my heart because I 'll miss her.
And guess what she wrote on facebook?? She wrote that I'm the "cockiest person on earth" after reading my awesome blog. Which is true by the way. I admit it. I'm not like one of those idiots who think themselves better than they actually are.
Right now there are a bunch of teachers talking so loudly and laughing their butts off in the library. If we did that, we would have been shouted at and kicked out already. That is just unfair. Phew. I'm over 300 so I'll stop now.


What I'm ultimately trying to say is, "Will you shut up!?" because this question is so funnily lengthy. (I unified the two vocabularies that were never combined before. It's a representation that I want North and South Korea to unify together just like these words. They might be very different but will still form something meaningful when they come together. And yeah, I don't know what I'm saying.)

1 comment:

  1. please don't write this for your real college essay :P

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