Lovely Penguin

somewhere, at some point someone said to me “that’s the way the cookie crumbles”. Regardless of the obscure chain of meaning in this phrase, i like it because what it signifies to me is something completely separate from the words on the page…if you know what I mean. If this simplifies anything for some of my readers, I have written this poem as a reaction to my horrifying experiences thus far in literary theory class.

by marie Gordon

I didn’t used to write
As if I were afraid
I trickled down metaphors
I rhymed like a chirper
And smiled with every
Syllable and pun
I packed into my lines
Which never really were mine

I took meaning
On hangers
Kept its colors bright
No bleaching pedagogy
Stifled the signified

So sick and sinful
So sweet and sublime
How I used to write
With such sickening rhymes

As if I were
Singing a song
Pretending like
Words were little notes
To pitter-patter down
Always too lightly,
Meaning

Wasn’t it grand
Playing a piano
That was never so great
Because the notes
Will never match

Maybe it was only
Grand
Because I told myself
I was signifying
Like a champ

Sweet
Fiery
Chariots
Whisk me away
For the love of God
from this Derridian oven

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