2011 Student Writing Awards Booklet - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Student Writing Awards Booklet - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Student Writing Awards Booklet - Santa Fe Community College
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Poetry<br />
Honorable Mention<br />
Judy Mosher<br />
I Too Am Waiting<br />
Homage to Lawrence <strong>Fe</strong>rlinghetti’s “I Am Waiting”<br />
I too am waiting for my ship to come in<br />
and Lawrence, I am waiting<br />
for a rebirth of wonder<br />
and also of wisdom<br />
and I am waiting<br />
for the American Dream<br />
to be rewritten from fantasy<br />
to a non-fiction exposé<br />
so instead of longing for<br />
the latest i-touch, i-pad,<br />
i-want designer clothes<br />
we soberly, practically accept<br />
the truth that the<br />
Emperor’s clothes are an illusion<br />
and we listen to ourselves<br />
for the wise voices within<br />
and refuse to run this<br />
gerbil wheel of<br />
impractical, unsustainable<br />
lifestyles of waste<br />
and I am waiting<br />
for a mass awakening<br />
that we are just<br />
lilies of the field after all<br />
and wisdom can be reborn.<br />
I too am waiting for the real arrival<br />
of the next millennium<br />
not the one we just celebrated<br />
with Prozac-laced pacifiers in our mouths<br />
quietly sucking more of the same<br />
in exchange for avoiding<br />
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