Woke?
Whut's thuh beg dayuhl 'bout bayin' woke? Ah been woke an' put tuh work ever' mornin' since Ah wuz jist uh lad.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 7:37 AM
3 comments
Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
3 Comments:
dat bloke be woke
what wants ta toke
he'll dance and prat
in cloudza smoke
he'll tuck into
a hearty meal
wif more d'n his
fair share o' zeal
he'll bless his Marx
and Engels fair
whilst hackin' up
a ball o' hair
he'll burn a town
an' call i' grace
and tell ya' it
was "for da race"
he's woke, and now
he'll woke ya', too
he'll woke ya' till
yer face be blue
Not exactly Burns's version of "John Barleycorn," but hey.
So pretty good that it even achieves ugly good!
Jeffery Hodges
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I hope that, someday, someone compliments my cooking that way.
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