Hive account@blockurator,

Hey Block.

Well ... you didn't think I was going to teach her your style, did you? :-)

Aztec god upon a tractor,
In middle of the street,
Shakespeare aghast at genre,
From Block ... a Farm Punk treat.

Ironically, she's even more vicious about form than I am (which is saying something). One of her classes this year is Classical Literature and they're studying poetry. And ... she frequently gets into debates with her teacher about poem interpretations. She came home one day, fuming, about the assertion that Robert Frost's poems were filled with "male patriarchal" themes. Robert Frost ... patriarchy. I read over the poems in question ... if anyone ever misinterprets one of my poems that badly, I will return from the grave.

It was once 'suggested' that she expand her horizons by writing ... in Free Verse. Well, you can imagine ... she is her father's daughter. She retaliated with a 10-minute explanation about the neurological effects of pattern (meter, rhythm, rhyme and alliteration), explaining the connection between the stimuli and the responsive secretion of dopamine, endocannibinoids, endorphins, oxytocin and vasopressin.

I mildly chastised her about keeping the cheek in check but who are we kidding, I would have done exactly the same. And ... she has a 97% in the class. I can only imagine what it's going to be like when she gets to university and some green-haired professor insists that Shakespeare was a misogynist because he named a play, 'Taming of the Shrew.' Thankfully, she's not alone. Apparently, many in Gen Z are horrified by Millennial antics and are pushing back. The pendulum I suppose.

BTW, I claim "Otter status."

Quill