Forgive me he started it

February 27, 2020 5:26 PM

Kids in NZ write confessions of their worst sins (SL twitter thread) in the style of William Carlos Williams, then design them using Canva.
posted by jeather (7 comments total)

Here's the original poem
posted by cubby at 6:40 PM on February 27, 2020

This one is genuinely good:

This is just to say
I have poured water on
my brother
You were probably upset
because he was soaked
Forgive me
it was to help him grow
posted by capricorn at 6:43 PM on February 27, 2020 [19 favorites]

I teach STEM but I am sorely tempted to do this with my students! Hey, memes are a tech thing and Canva is fun!

Maybe someone should talk me out of this...
posted by blessedlyndie at 8:17 PM on February 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

I did this last year for a high school class in Japan, and posted on MetaTalk about it, along with some of the student’s poems, and yeah, it was one of the more enjoyable things I think I’ve been able to do in a classroom setting.


This is just to say
I have self linked
To a comment that I
Made a couple months ago

Forgive me
It was so on topic

And my
Students did
Such a good job

posted by Ghidorah at 9:12 PM on February 27, 2020 [16 favorites]

blessedlyndie, I'm definitely on team-talk-you-into-it. It was fun, and while the students were a little skeptical at first (that rare sort of hyper-focused on entrance exams to the exclusion of all else sort), they warmed up to it pretty quickly. Not being a STEM teacher, the only thing that pops to mind is somehow using reactions chemicals can cause in each other as a basis for the poem, almost a mentos apologizing to a two liter of diet coke type thing.
posted by Ghidorah at 10:09 PM on February 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

I have eaten
the paint chips
that were in
the gutter

and which
you were probably
saving
for decoupage

Forgive me
they were delicious
so colourful
and so bold.
posted by clavdivs at 10:21 PM on February 27, 2020 [3 favorites]

This is just to say that there's a Wiki page about This is just to say...
posted by Huffy Puffy at 5:32 AM on February 28, 2020