1
take a happy middle class family
where children & parents love long
2
give them a large rambling house
full of expensive bay windows
3
get them to swallow the classics
from Dryden to Foucault
4
ask the MFAs amongst them
who study literary theory - to write one
5
later, get a large mammal, preferably an
elephant or blue whale- to shit on it
The satiric poem (2002) was first published in Pixel Papers. It was written, in part, in response to the implementation of the "new" HSC syllabus in English (2001) which necessitated the explicit teaching of postmodern theory in literature for the first time.
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