9 students (BMCC Intensive Writing Class) recite their versions of Bernadette Mayer's Tomorrow. A possible lesson for ESL and writing teachers. I admire a poem by Bernadette Mayer called Tomorrow. The poem is a good prompt to get my ESL students writing about the future and the conditional. In the poem Bernadette moves at an impossible speed, going here and there, seeing this and that in the space of a day, and that day is tomorrow. She is traveling with her son Max and his wife Alyssa. Some of the things they will see are a green heron, a melting ice sculpture, and a pizza made with ricotta cheese and fresh figs. Mmmm. It's a wonderful world, then George Bush drops his thoughtless bombs. I think Bernadette wrote the poem to protest the Iraq War, contrasting it to love. TOMORROW for max and alyssa malyyssax worelish tomorrow we’ll see the lightbulb in schenectady, go to gems farms in schodack, then on to howe caverns, then to see the wayne thiebaud show at the clark where we’ll stop to notice the melting ice sculpture then excellent spinach sap soup at the thai restaurant in williamstown, a brief stop at the octagonal museum, on to northhampton to see the smith college art museum & greenhouse where we’ll see a green heron it would be nice to be able to walk today so we could go to opus 40 in saugerties followed by a dinner of oysters & mussles at the bear then on to check out the sheep at the sheepherding inn where we’re able to buy ricotta cheese which means twice-baked, with which we’re able to make a pizza with fresh figs gotten from the berry farm war what is it good for? absolutely nothing For the lesson, check out my blog: http://donyorty.com/blog/2010/09/07/tomorrow/ for more poetry and other stuff, check out: https://donyorty.com/ to check out my books: https://yortydon.com/
