A Vivid Geographical Simile

From a student's poem about Newark, New Jersey: "285,000 people . . . 12, 400 people per square mile . . . tight like a virgin."

5 comments:

  1. I miss life in the Dirty Jerz for exactly stuff like this.

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  2. Someone had to take mine and TJ's places as the injectors of sexual innuendo into English Comp assignments.

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  3. overlooked in all this is the fact that someone was writing a poem about newark. what's next, sonnets about teaneck?

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  4. First, I overlooked this sentence for two days--didn't even notice it was there. Second, I've never done it with a virgin, and I've never lived with 12,400 people per square mile, but I did sleep with 12,400 people in my 32 years, and that was pretty tight (we all know this is a lie).

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