Re: : SEC: Need Poem Information: FOUND!

[Robert Hiebert <rhiebert@SD6.BC.CA>]

Hello Betty,

The poem was written by Charles Bukowski. Information about this gentleman can
be found at: http://www.levee67.com/bukowski/introduction.html

The poem itself is posted at: http://www.ms-allthat.com/bitemecom.html   (about
half way down)

I tried several search engines, but the one that hit paydirt was:
http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/

Regards,
Robert


Robert Hiebert
Librarian, Golden Secondary School
www.sd6.bc.ca/gss/library/
Fax: 250 344 7116
rhiebert@sd6.bc.ca


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An English teacher in my building is looking for information on a poem
that a student turned in as his own, but that the teacher believes was
plagiarized.  I have looked unsuccessfully to find the poem, and thought
of all of the experts I have only a  keyboard's length away.  Can someone
help?  Here is the poem:

A POEM IS A CITY

A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers
Filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen,
Filled with banality and booze,
Filled with rain and thunder and periods of
Draught, a poem is a city at war,
A poem is a city asking a clock why,
A poem is a city burning,
A poem is a city under guns
Its barbershops filled with cynical drunks,
A poem is a city where god rides naked
Through the streets like Lady Godiva,
Where dogs bark at night, and chase away
The flag; a poem is a city of poets,
Most of them quite similar
And envious and bitter...
A poem is this city now,
50 miles from nowhere,
9:09 in the morning,
The taste of liquor and cigarettes,
No police, no lovers, walking the streets,
This poem, this city, closing its doors,
Barricaded, almost empty,
Mournful without tears, aging without pity,
The hardrock mountains,
The ocean like a lavender flame,
A moon destitute of greatness,
A small music from broken windows...

A poem is a city, a poem is a nation,
A poem is the world.

TIA,

Betty Sarver
Teacher Librarian
Decatur High School
(253) 945-5210

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