Author’s Note: THIS IS NOT AN ORIGINAL IDEA! This poem was created as a class project a while back and was modeled off of Alan Ginsberg’s poem Is About. (It’s really good. Check it out here: www.writing. I make no claim to the originality of this poem.

What I am About

Jared Fowler is about himself

Jared Fowler is about running free (both literally and figuratively)

(Jared Fowler) is also about an unhealthy love of parentheses, but that is a whole different

story)

AP English is about grammar literature writing pain crying, also Ms. Bates

Ms. Bates is about: “Hey write me this rough draft tonight AND…”

Jared Fowler is about: “If there is a God, he will do some of my homework for me”

Stress is about too many things to do and no time to do them in

Caffeine is about Starbucks soda and 2 AM study sessions

Studying is about trying to fit things in your head though you have no idea what to do

with them

Everything is about something

Life’s about finding out what that something is

Friends are about loving.

Loving is not always about kissing and cuddling

Loving is about being unconditional

People don’t love that way anymore

I wish they did; the world would be a better place

Music is about emotion and the joy of creating

Rap is about selling records and bragging about how big your “chain” is

Emotion is about expression

Do you see what it is all about?

Of course you don’t, you’re about conformity and pop culture

It’s about the man

The man is about making a profit from your lives

How much are you worth?

NOTE: Names have been changed to protect the innocent