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Why Do You Build Me Up, Buttercup?

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Study Nothing or else nothing at all,

epiphenomenologists pipe up

from the back of the room where meurons sit.

Eyes roll, here we go again: full of sh*t,

elegant equationisms, butter cup

chin glows, cries of It's all illusional.

My ethics instructor brought the goodies --

moral relativism, her bread and butter --

she wore gold-mirrored shades, a micro-skirt,

fucked with us until our libidos hurt,

dared us to stare her down and to utter

japes at feminism. We hid in hoodies.

I'm a full blown reader-response theorist

now -- and a reformed ethical realist.

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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