Fieldwork Poems - Poems about Fieldwork

...I was a happy, fluent linguist, fruitfully helping revive endangered languages, As colorful rainbows walk across the sky, in buttery hours, turned languorous. I enjoyed doing practical fieldwork,......Read the rest...

...Fieldwork is stellar, sexy, or strenuous and sad Talking values, prolonging childhood Is not for the faint hearted among S. Africa's "Coloured" My "township" boasts about acting backward Using wa......Read the rest...

...Some days it gets to me Requests for prayer, currency One can try quiet neutrality But stories are hard, dependency Here: crystal, Meth, Tik, or glass-y U pray today, they call U "kuk" next da......Read the rest...

...grateful for my gifts along the way managed to reach a stage where I can look back on life letting out a sigh of relief mostly my sins were of omission now I strive to look ahead while I focu......Read the rest...

...Symptoms are not who I am Disease is not my name Medication is not your fix-it-up And treatments are not your game My body is not your fieldwork This machine that lets me live My mind is not ......Read the rest...

...HISTORY POLITICS GEOGRAPHY Some guy once said there's lies, damn lies, and statistics But he surely meant lies, damn lies, and politics; And since all the people are dead in history Why to st......Read the rest...