Based in Sydney, Australia, Foundry is a blog by Rebecca Thao. Her posts explore modern architecture through photos and quotes by influential architects, engineers, and artists.

The future of Swarthmorean poetry

To the Editor,

A Swift and Modest Proposal
for the New Poetry Editor

Swarthmorean poetry
will now be sunshine and roses
not mentioning skin cancer
nor speaking of rose fever
sunshine and roses ’twill be

We will avoid political verse
unless it can’t be scanned
by the average non-elite
a swift and modest proposal
we’ll be adverse to political verse

We will be uncrit of any local
store or non-prof
as we don’t know
who it is safe to be crit of.
Which store or non-prof

Once we learn whose opinions rate
what we should say, and how,
and how high, then any form
haiku or pantoum, or verse blanc
we will freely choose

Bob Small
Swarthmore

An enlightening Swarthmorean under Pastan’s leadership

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