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Most of us can’t ski: Another look at mixed abilityteaching

Ok people. We’re at that point in the year where the guilt really starts kicking in. Where you start thinking about your classes and realising, with a knot of dread, that you might have been failing them since September. That the clever ones aren’t being stretched and the not so clever ones are being left behind. It’s the biggest elephant in the staffroom: Mixed Ability.

The Great Mixed Ability Debate is an ongoing storm of guilt, shame, and expectation with a very obvious conclusion that we aren’t doing enough, never doing enough, can never do enough to accommodate for the wild spectrum of academic needs and ability levels in the unstreamed, unset classroom.

But (and here starts the blog post in earnest) I’ve been thinking.

I’ve been thinking that, despite over a decade of classroom experience, I’m going to have to fold. I can’t do it. I cant solve the mixed ability Rubix cube. The squares are too jumbled up. I can’t What I can do, though, is what I do every time I step into school. I can have an experience. And so can the students.

See, the thing about us teachers is that we spend so much time angsting over what the kids can (or can’t) do that we fail or forget to worry about what they will (or won’t) do. There’s a huge difference. One of the insights on my tweezer-thin list of insights gained in teaching for ten years is that this whole thing is based in the experiential. Teachers are pilots of experience, designers of being, not orchestrators of activity. We can fool ourselves into thinking that we are delivers of learning, project designers, administrators, thought leaders, lecturers, jumped up babysitters, kids’ entertainers or drill sergeants, but nope, all we are is what we are, people in a room conducting a shared experience and thinking about these experiences before, after and during they happen.

Imagine for a second that you knew each of your mixed ability class with the level of insight that you know yourself. Now forget that each member of your class has a different ‘ability’ level to everyone else. Now start thinking about their preferences for experience, not their learning styles just how they prefer to experience things in general. This, I think, could be key. Maya Angelou once said something very insightful about people. She said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that people will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Teachers would do well to bear this in mind.

I would argue that the experiential is the biggest single factor in engagement, willingness and ultimately, ‘success’. The best students are the ones who take a lesson, or lecture, or piece of homework or whatever, and morph it into a desired experience, independently. If they like being organised and making lists, they lean into that. If they’re creative, they think creatively around the topic content and sit in silent wonder in the Willy Wonka factory that is their cognitive imagination. If thy love a project, they treat the lesson like part of a greater whole. Et cetera. Meanwhile, the worst students do THE EXACT SAME THING, just with less desirable outcomes. IF they like chatting and avoiding the task at hand, they chat and avoid the task at hand If they like subverting order they probe at the teacher’s private life instead of applying themselves to whatever ‘activity’ has been offered. If they like being in control, they get control, by dominating, acting up, or pandering to you, the boss.

This is so much bigger than ability. I don’t have the statistics to hand because I’m typing this quickly and can’t google the facts, but I would imagine that millions of people across the world go skiing. Hundreds of thousands at least. I am not one of them. Of this number, only the tiniest fraction are what you would call, ‘high ability’. I’m thinking the handful of Winter Olympians who take home a medal (note: of all athletes present at the games, only three per cent will make it to the podium factoid courtesy of the BBC). This means that the vast majority of skiing humans on this planet are anywhere near good enough to be in the top set.

And yet, millions of of people take to the slopes annually, buying into the lifestyle, the thrill, the cold, the fun, the exercise, the image or whatever it is that constitutes their skiing experience. And of course, many of these people are probably, as we speak getting better at skiiing because of their commitment to the experience, which is a very desirable irony.

I dont teach skiing, and neither do you, but you get the point. If teachers started thinking less about the ability of their students and more about the quality of their experience, we might be able to stop handwringing over students who can and can’t. So, with day one of half term ticked off, I’m going to stop agonising over the details of what happens in my classroom and throw that energy at what Ive always been more concerned about anyway: what is being experienced in my classroom, by each person in there. First lesson back, a simple question with no threshold: what do you like to do, and how do you like to do it? Shelve the outcomes, and planning can start from there. Something to think about.

-UF

Reimagining ‘super’ heroes: Turning our boys into bettermen

Reimagining ‘super’ heroes: Turning our boys into better men
I recently heard of a superhero themed training session at a boys’ toddling football club. This is apparently a thing now. The idea is that for one mid-morning only, all those kick happy little strikers would be allowed, encouraged, required to don a superhero costume and play football like a new Avenger. Its the perfect storm, the perfect meeting point of masculinity and machismo, asking boys to become super boys and supercharge their gender-led sporting childcare.

How far the lowly superhero has come. To think, in less than a generation, colourfully-clad cape-wearing creations of the comic world have infiltrated the mainstream on such a fundamental level. I blame the success of the Marvel Studios movie franchises, the innumerable string of blockbusting sequels and reboots that have transplanted the superhero from the nerd’s bedroom into the silver screen, toyshop shelf and supermarket shopping aisle.

The modern superhero is confirmation of that most dangerous of things: the masculinity myth. It’s a wham bam reminder that strength is supposed to be strong, that invulnerability is manly, that masculinity is power. Explosive, rippling power that can save the universe and take your breath away in the same moment. The modern superhero sells invulnerability and we (the general public) have bought it wholesale. A generation of boys who are being socialised to accept that tough masculinity is an aspiration. Browse through the kids’ aisle at any major supermarket and you’ll see a parade of musclebound superhero costumes for boys, and princess dresses for girls, usually specific to movie franchises that you can buy on DVD a few aisles later.

The dangers of masculinity to society at large are obvious; its promotion of violence, its grip on social hierarchies and rigid inflexibility. Its emotional bluntness and reliance on archaic codes of manliness that are increasingly at odds with a modern, nuanced world. In this sense, the superhero is masculinity magnified to cartoon proportions, primary-coloured and in your face, perfectly poised to hook little boys into a macho way of thinking. Even reading books, that well-loved intellectual and emotionally sensitive pasttime, has been infected by the gender binary bug, with World Book Day costumes at school often falling into a superhero/ princess dichotomy.

The big problem here is that by encouraging boys to be BOYS!™, their sensitivities and vulnerabilities are being overlooked. And, (bringing us to the point of this essay) SUPERHEROES WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE INVULNERABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Let me elaborate.

SPIDER-MAN

Is the eternal nerd. He’s the high school geek who caught superpowers through his obsession with science. His motivation is guilt and shame, having been responsible for his beloved uncle’s death by being too cocky to stop the crooks that ended up killing him. He’s an orphan. He can’t hold a romantic relationship down and wears a mask to hide his identity, rather than create a feared one. And his webs aren’t part of his superpower; he built them. They come from his ingenuity.

Imagine if we asked little boy spider-fans how it feels to be alone, why Spider-Man helps other people when he hasn’t got enough money to pay rent, what it feels like to live with cringing guilt. Rather than wear a six-packed red costume and pretend to punch baddies?

THE X-MEN

This is a civil rights narrative. The X-Men are a group of mutant freedom fighters, ostracised by society because they are different, weird, freakish, and labelled dangerous. We should ask little boys playing X-Men dress up what it feels like to be different, how we can empower ourselves when we feel disabled, how to recognise the qualities in ‘disabled’ people, why society is so scared of ‘different’ people. Cyclops is blind and destroys things whenever he opens his eyes. Nightcrawler has three fingers and two toes. Beast is blue. And furry. Rogue cannot physically touch anybody without killing them. Professor Xavier is wheelchair bound. Wolverine is 53. Et cetera. Yet they are all heroic.

In a world presided by a norm that is white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied, Christian, middle-aged and middle-class, counter narratives are more important than ever. So many of us are misfits to social ideas of normality, freaks who are too much of one thing or too little of another to fit ingrained expectations. X-Men explores these tensions with insight and complexity, where (some) mutants fight for a greater good in a world that doesnt understand them. For our children, the pressures to be normal can be debilitating, manifesting in adult traumas and anxieties borne of unaccepted difference.

WOLVERINE

Is old! His fast-healing factor means that he ages at an incredibly slow rate. He’s older than your great grandparents. What better opportunity to discuss attitudes to older people, to generations that came before who seem so distant?

THE HULK

The recent BBC investigative documentary No More Boys and Girls revealed worrying trends of very young boys being unable to express and articulate a healthy range of emotions, apart from anger. Statistics prove that young men suffer from mental health issues linked to anger and unresolved frustration that too often leads to broken relationships and suicide. The Hulk, a super-powered, inarticulate, green skinned, unstoppable monster triggered by rage, is the perfect personification of masculine anger. Why does Bruce Banner get angry? How do you cope with rage? How can Bruce Banner channel the Hulk for good? What are the downsides of having a rage-filled persona lurking in your body? Can you control anger? All questions that young men need to tackle for the benefit of themselves and our hopelessly masculine world.

SUPERMAN

The least super of men, Kal-El, son of Jor-El is an orphaned immigrant misfit who depended solely on the kindness of strangers for his humble start in life. His alter-ego, ‘Superman’ is hopelessly incompatible with the world he lives in, existing as a protector of the weak but unable to find love himself. His ‘disguise’ persona, Clark Kent, is equally ostracised, clumsy and awkward and unable to explain his inner emotions or life story to a woman he desires and loves from afar. This is basically every teenage boy on the road to adulthood, awkward and inarticulate, but bristling with a half-known power that promises great things, but can’t be discussed in public.

All men are under pressure to be super to earn more, run faster, be better looking, get good grades, write the best book, be the funniest, have the fastest car. How good would it be to peel away the expectations for boys to turn into super men, and discuss, really discuss, the vulnerabilities that lie therein?

BATMAN

Yet another orphan. Another lost little boy overcompensating for his lack of stable family, fighting fire with fire, turning deepest darkest fears into harsh vengeance for bad guys. All that gear, all those toys, all that building up of a shatterproof persona, just because he doesnt want to feel what he must feel alone, scared and vulnerable. Inability to form healthy relationships. Mental health hanging in the balance of city he hates to protect. Batman needs a hug.

IRON MAN

Tony Starks has ‘it all’ the looks, the money, the women, the brains, the one liners, the ingenious exo-skeleton power suit that enables him to fly through the air and blast baddies into oblivion. But he’s dying and he knows it. His body relies on technology for survival. He’s severely handicapped, terminally ill, and living with death shadowing his life. His super suit is a pacemaker. If anything, his real superpower is his optimism and motivation to make something meaningful of his life beyond all the usual signifiers of success. An Iron Man discussion group could be a great place to start discussing empathy, fear, success and disability.

DAREDEVIL

Is blind. Which would be debilitating if not for the fact that his other senses are so acute that he is actually able to do more than the ‘normal’ person. What a great lesson in diving into vulnerability, being blind but trusting your other senses. We’d do well to teach our boys that not being good at (or able to do) one thing doesn’t rule out other kinds of success in other areas.

CAPTAIN AMERICA

Only became super after volunteering for a highly experimental, highly dangerous super-soldier serum administered by the US government during the Second World War. Before that, he was Steve Rogers, an aspiring soldier who was too physically weak and asthmatic to make the grade. It’s sad enough that he was the cleverest recruit in the ranks but was so blinded by hypermasculinity that he saw this as his only route into success, but as Captain America, his sole identity is a hero role imposed by masculine power structures (in this case, the military).

We need to ask our boys which socialised roles they feel compelled to play, what the social pressures are and why they feel the feed to conform. Men are too often trapped by socially constructed roles created by callous power hierarchies at the expense of their own emotional wellbeing. Steve Rogers should never have become an artificially enhanced walking weapon thats the tragedy of the masculine approach. And worse still, becoming Captain America, the pinnacle of macho success, leaves him depressed and alienated from the modern world he finds himself in (after being cryogenically frozen and woken up after WW2 has ended). What are you fighting for? What are you trying to prove? To who? What’s wrong with being weak? Is power worth it? What is power?

This excellent article lists all the ways in which the Captain America myth is a case study in depression, opening the doors to a profound debate over the damage hard masculinity can do to the male psyche, up to and including reckless behaviour, insomnia, repressed emotion, shame-guilt and suicidal tendencies. At a time when suicide is the biggest cause of death among British men aged 20 49 (three times as many as women), we need to seriously reconsider the risks posed by masculinity roles and that ever present imperative “Man up”.

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I’m a huge comics fan. I have thousands of the things hidden up in the loft and a string of graphic novels on steady rotation. I formed my adolescent conscience in this balloon captioned swirl, forming deep psychological affinities with 2 dimensional figures on glossy, panelled pages. And when I eventually emerged into adulthood (sort of) the only thing I was clear on was that these characters were hardly ever ‘super’. In fact, they were often as flawed as we are, if not moreso. That was the point. That’s what missing from the lazy assumption that boys will benefit from dressing up as superheroes who are supposedly invulnerable. It’s the vulnerability that is important.

I’ve been fortunate enough this summer to have read The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry, a truly excellent essay on the risk posed to us all by blunt masculinity. In it, Perry discusses the need to acknowledge and embrace and actively encourage vulnerability, particularly among men who have been socially and historically conditioned to put up shields against this ‘weakness’. Brene Brown, a social researcher namechecked by Perry, has written extensively on the topic. Her book Daring Greatly patiently explains why the ability to be vulnerable is key to emotional stability and healthy relationships. It formed the basis of a well-being programme I helped develop for GCSE students last year.

Through this lens, some of the most ostensibly invulnerable heroes of the super-persuasion become far more interesting than we thought. And with a bit of that thought we might be able to turn hero worship into something healthier than fuel for masculine myths. As a father of two very young boys (29 months and 6 days, respectively) I can already see the gender tsunami approaching, along with the dangers of being swept away by waves of masculinty. Its a worrying thing, not just for their own navigations through a binaried landascape, but for their perception and treatment of others.

I think that every superhero costume should come with a list of discussion questions. Boys, more than ever before, need to talk. They need to be allowed to express complex emotions, verbalise their insecurities and step into the vulnerability that being a man so brutally slams a door on. In my ideal world, the toddlers football superhero session would start with circle time about winning and losing and trying and failing and teamwork and pressure and fear, using the costumes as a way into real coaching, real well being. Until then, this article will have to suffice. Please share. Something to think about.

Jeffrey Boakye

Hiphoped: Insights and lightbulbs from the Original Remixseminar

Original Remix: Some insights and lightbulbs

In no particular order, and with scattergun reference to a range of speakers who presented on the day:

Decolonisation of the mind

It was a shake of the shoulders to hear that only a few short decades ago, initial teacher training courses would actively seek to ‘decolonise’ mindsets before sending wide-eyed new educationalists into the classroom. We discussed the now lost intention of ITT of old to delineate the socio-cultural contexts framing education with a view to perhaps dismantling them, for the benefit of students. Now, with such rapid routes into teaching and very little thinking time before hitting the chalk face, the moment of reflection in which teachers can challenge the paradigms steering their professional existence has been diminished, almost to nil.

Questions:

Are we even aware of the colonial bent affecting our contemporary thinking?

Collective memory, collective accountability

At one point someone raised the point that in this digital age we have a very visible, very updatable forum for shared memory and accountability via social media channels such as YouTube (particularly the comments) and twitter. The relevance? That new forms of expression are held to account with a scrutiny and immediacy that we, as a species, have not experienced to date. This got me thinking. So much of what we study has been cauterised and shaped and managed and moulded into a solidified history that purports to be objectively ‘true’, that it goes unchallenged. The digital age has revolutionised this, inasfar as cultural artefacts are scrutinised, and criticised with an existing record in a democratised sphere.

Questions:

Do we challenge pre-modern art in this way?Who is (or was) the critical community for canonical works? (If YouTube is the critical community for modern popular works, for example)

Being porous vs being shrink wrapped

The curriculum samples from a narrow field of thought, values and ideals and suffers from confirmation bias over time. This means that students become ‘shrink wrapped’, hermetically sealed from new ways of thinking about old things, or new things entirely. Even the existence of a curriculum that implicitly suggests that the best of all there is is what has been selected and studied is deeply problematic. Educators have a responsibility to encourage porous students who are receptive to new ideas and challenging thought, otherwise we risk confirming the confirmed rather than encouraging genuine insight.

Questions:

How can we make a very shrink wrapped curriculum an opportunity for permeability, when the pressures are to close the conversation rather than open it up?

Neoliberal forces in education

Education is being commodified with increasing frequency. Just consider the unending stream of bumf hitting heads of departments’ pigeon holes, selling educational solutions at a price. During my own prevention I offered the idea that we ‘dance to a neoliberal groove’, by which I mean that the purpose of formal education is still to satisfy capitalist urges. Get kids the skills and knowledge they need to prosper, or prop a system that benefits others. This perspective has bled into the delivery of education itself, with private companies such as Ark and Harris being given the remit to establish schools out of proven business models. Where pedagogic integrity sits in all this is open for debate.

The power of context

Linked to above. Being aware of the paradigm in which you operate is key to having any sense of ownership over your actions. Neoliberalism is one example, but other huge contextual forces include Colonialism, Capitalism, Liberalism and Masculinity. Some good, some problematic, some not so good, some deeply dangerous. It’s very simple: our contexts can influence our decisions in the way a riverbed dictates the water’s flow of travel. (A metaphor that Guy Claxton offered in a recent conversation I had). Once we are aware of conext, we are in a position to critique it. Summarised neatly in the bullet points below, as crafted by one of the speakers on the day:

Map the terrainBreak it downFind areas for innovationEither say something new, or say something old in a new wayCompare and critique

The educational landscape must be interrogated in this manner to avoid blind reinforcement of ideas we didn’t create in the first place. In my talk, I referenced Hirsch as a huge influence on our educational ideas, with the whole ‘knowledge as power’ approach steering our educational drive.

Sampling vs ‘new languages’

When notoriously political artist Ai Wei Wei used mangled iron rods to make comment on the state’s attitude to natural disaster and tragic loss of life, he spoke to audiences in a new unfamiliar language, offering cryptic, elusive codes that created dissonance and asked for new thinking. Saying something in the same way it has been said before offers recognisability and ease of understanding, but this can be at the expense of useful frictions.

Questions:

As educators, which ‘languages’ have we been given?How can we create useful dissonance and friction for students to interrogate received knowledge (steered by aforementioned contexts)?

The destructive power of the single story

It’s nothing new that the curriculum tells a singular, predominantly monochrome, heavily gendered story, but seeing the texts that constitute the KS3 and 4 curriculum in black and white was a cold reminder of Dead White Man model of literary education that we continue to run. More illuminating was the discussion surrounding the Enlightenment. An argument proposed was that this period of ‘enlightened’ thinking was actually born from a need to inoculate certain cultural ideals into a generation of privileged elite who were poised to go globe-trotting an endeavour that risks irreparable cultural damage. The result? Cultural ideals define what is considered important, confirmed and reconfirmed every time we dust off the canon and turn pages on ‘the classics’.

For educators, especially ones entering a scholarly heritage, it is imperative to stop confusing intellectual identity with cultural elite. Here, I was introduced to the work of Lisa Jardine, who has interrogated the Renaissance and asked questions of how this period reflected hierarchies in status and control.

Questions:

Whose story are we telling?Are there any tokenistic nods to diversity? What do they suggest about the single story?

Progression reconsidered

There’s an intimidatingly long German word I have never come across before that will forever affect my attitude towards progressivism in education. Reformpadagogik.

As educators, we need to be hyper-sensitive to perceived societal and cultural needs, specifically the gaps between these needs and existing arrangements. In short, if the curriculum is not fit for actual purposes, there is a problem that needs to be addressed.

Questions:

Is it even possible to craft a meaningful and apt curriculum without first listing societal and cultural needs? (And regularly reconsidering any conclusions reached)

Re-cycling

I loved this definition, complete with an all-important hyphen. Western educational systems are guilty of returning to the same cycles of thought that promote the same hieracrchal structures. This re-cycling can confirm problematic hierarchies. The irony is that many of the most revered thinkers in popular English intellectualism actively break the cycle and operate in slippage and code switching, eg: Shakespeare, Stephen Fry, Monty Python.

Knowing your samples is key

For depth and integrity. Knowledge of the original contexts for a particular idea, thought or artefact is as important as appreciation of that idea, though or artefact. Not only because you might miss some of the depth linked to the original source material, but because you will not be aware of what has been lost. Seeing examples of poor artistic appropriation / theft in which nuance and meaning ins lost highlighted the danger of wholesale theft. Meanwhile, the risk of pastiche that comes from sampling without deliberation and intent (eg: Justin Bieber making Dancehall vs Rihanna making Dancehall) can lead to meaningless work that asks no questions and serves no purpose. For educators, the lesson is clear: we must know where our assumptions and ideologies come from, because chances are they are rooted in sources of old.

When done properly, sampling can bring an idea back into relevance or celebrate the original, confirming its worth in a contemporary context. Remixing is celebratory and disrespectful in equal measure, but deliberate remix and sample work is rooted in integrity.

Questions:

How can we have integrity of we don’t interrogate the roots of our ideals, values and assumptions?

To conclude, I’m going to sample a line from Spider-Man folklore (that no doubt has been inspired from somewhere else along the line)

‘With great sampling comes great responsibility’

There were no easy answers or clean solutions to the ethos of sampling, and as you can see from my ramblings above, we really did dance across modern history. Debates raged on whether or not and why Kanye West might have sampled ‘Strange Fruit’ to riff on his personal tribulations and relationship issues, and consensus was not reached. But that’s the point. Sampling and intertextual play is an invitation to friction, where context bubbles to the surface in the debate over artistic intent and ideological integrity.

The Buzzfeed Poem

This Poem Will Make You Think Twice About Rhyming

Eleven Syllables That Will Force You To Count

You Wont Believe What Will Come After This Line

Nine More Words That Will Force You To Count!

-U

Taking The Safe

Four men:
A combined age of 270-odd.
Wheres my medication?
Im taking my dog.

Dont fall asleep at the-
Zzzzz
You just did. Well meet at the pub.
Its gonna be big.

No messing-
Nowadays theyve got CBTV.
CC.
Alright. Just listen to me.

In with a drill. The wiresll trip.
Your hip up to this?
Ha ha.
Watch your lip.

No masks. No guns.
Were taking the safe.
(Ill scarf up, in case)
They wont see your face.

Itll be just like-
Shh-
What did you say? Whos that? A guard?
Lets give him away.

Lovely. Hes gone.
Now get through the hole.
(Chuckle) Remember when-
Not now. Go.

Dunnit. Well played.
Now keep off the box.
Um. Channel 1. Have a look.
Watch.

No comment
No comment
No questions. Dont ask.
Three men, with a combined age of-
Guilty, as charged.

-UF

Make No Mistake

Make no mistake
Youll settle down on Facebook
All digitised
And real-time live.
Remember that guy
You tried to make eyes?
He went and got married
To a total surprise.

-U

I Always Deal InAbsolutes

-Beat-
I always deal in absolutes.
Actually,
I never do.
Actually,
The attribute I tend towards is lassitude:
Tired of my vagaries in attitude,
From plateau up to latitude,
Flipping like a mattress
And its cloudy at this altitude
Hence the hazy attitude
Call it crazy lazy shady vague or acrobatic,
Whos immune to polar absolutes?
Pole to pole and back a few
Moments later.
-Beat-
I always deal in absolutes.

-U

Equation

Waiting for notifications,
Like watching yourself ageing,
Is making a slow cage out of your own anticipation,
Avalanche awaiting,
Helicopter patient,
Hovering above while seasons change like radio stations.

Meanwhile, notifications from the world arrive in wailing klaxon sirens blinding lights revolving round like signs for fire,
Panic-soaked aural reminders of the burning skies behind you while your cage,
Immune to blazes,
Keeps you shielded from the flames

Oh yes

The famine and the tragedy,
The murder and the maiming and the fate of babies,
Children born a little way away in wars that tore through all the static but you havent heard the station cos youre waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting, watching, scaling ladders of anticipation,
Every incremental drip has washed away the seas of pain we should be drowning in.

Youre frowning arent you?

Well its far too late for that; your followers are crowning you as more important than the facts of death, were all infected by the virus to be viral:
Hope to screen and screen to hope to screen were in a spiral while the world were in continues to spin and tornado by you but

You are the eye and the eye is so rarely idle

(Beat)
As it Watches for a notification
In the time I wrote this youve been steadily aging.
If I ever tweet this Ill be patiently waiting,
For that little bell to have its dot on the pavement.

(Beat)
Im igNoring all the notifications
In the time I wrote this I just hope they could save them.
One day I just hope that Ill look up in amazement,
If I ever stop to solve this hopeless equation.

U

Four Stars

Frownable comparisons to people not like me,
Free market hyperbole honest unlikely,
Quotation summaries, centred and shifted,
Roll-call celebrities, B to D listed.

Adjective careless and adversely sparing,
Sales boost concerning acquaintances caring,
Name recognition brand person at skimming,
Inverted commas ellipses phrase bridging.

Two-worder final endorsement star counted,
Minus the words constellation starts shouting,
Pile upon praise upon climb upon mounting,
Part with your glittering coins at the fountain.

Wishing well expectemptations get tested,
Testing the money spectators pre-bested,
Recommendation on poster back paging,
Poetry anti potential start raging.

-U

Poetry: Scrabbling in theSky

Written in April 2013 and delayed until, well, now.

Scrabbling in the Sky

2014:
It went it came.
I scrabbled in the sky:
And raised, the game.

-Un

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