poetariat visions

hermanos, this is rant....excuse the colliding tangents...

Isa, I wish i could agree to your terms you use to define all TASPers. I want all to know I am nowhere near advanced academically as all or most of you. My grades and tests scores prove I didn't really care too much about school and that many times it bored me. I somehow am excessively mentally fit for this new race though. after spending half of my summer as another exploited Mexican earning what amounts to $4 an hour if you count the traveling to and from work and the expenses involved in this mandatory maneuver. I work 5am to 5pm with many illegal latinos, who like me are numbers in factories, assembling, drilling and nodding to english imperatives. this structure of iownyouandyouworkworksoulbleedwork is beyond annoying and a reason for violence, crime and others ills amnesty international fights in this world. these exist in 'third world' america and in the developing, abundantly-manufacturing world. yes, i spent the summer with aliens, including a novice to this country who hasbeen here a mere 22 days.

i want to own a school one day. one i'd found in a black or latino ghetto, harlem, or the gang-infested east side in LA where courses would delve into life experiences(which many of them already have), i.e. exploitation shit jobs, ex convict teachers, mandatory homeless weeks...etc, somehow construct oppression for students to experience and not merely flip through or sleep on at night (plus sleeping on textbooks just hurts anyways). this school would also be a fine arts academy, a prep school if you will, but with a never seen before demographic. somehow though, at the least, HS kids should be forced to work in factories for minimal pay, to illuminate incentives to avoid dead end 'jobs' (oppressive labor camps). the lower classes need hope and the power of literature, theory, art, and the balancing act of industrial work and forced glimpses of the 'real world' and detrimental affects of the industrial prison complex on lower class minorities will only bring out the fierce light we know any student can produce. this format or supplementary crash life course would also extend to suburbia and any school really. this is a poetariat dream of mine, because i am convinced, that only when a diversity of classes are found under the same oppressive conditions, will they champion for the cause of all when they go on to bushiness, education, politics and what have you.

factory work reminds emphasizes the 'man' in the term man-made. thousands of factories produce your office, your room, your smiles and condoms...and people are struggling to yield these items for your, they give up 12+ hours of their day to create summer orgasms mentioned in the last post, balconies and lipstick stains on coffee mugs, late-game goals and fashionable killing devices, empty luchbags and hundreds of thousands of chess pieces, involatile pawns and their their lazy crystal kings.

i will be a number with a future, in the ivy league of all places! this glory that has been secretly stuffed in my back pocket is absurd to me. Only words like 'undeserved' and 'increasingly shocked' can be used to define the events in the past 14 months of my life. i plan to make the best of it and care a bit more about those test numbers and such that define our academic habits. i am not scared of the rigors or anything, i agree with Isa, that many aspects of life sort themselves out and it is most prudent to seek more influential endeavors.

i hope i have not upset the middle-class. Tosin, you are not brats, but great minds that will each procure miles of wisdom and diffuse them beautifully into the pigment of the human race.