Thursday, May 29, 2014

Maya Angelou is dead

Have you ever read anything of hers that you weren't forced to read by someone else, such as a teacher in high school?

I haven't.

Yeah, you can call me a troglodyte for that if you wish.  I'm the guy with the collective works of Edgar Allen Poe on his shelf, next to Robert Heinlein and the Federalist Papers.  But I never once ever felt the urge to read an entire book of Angelou's poetry  There was no there there, if you get my drift.

3 comments:

mostly cajun said...

concur!

Of course you and I are probably not educated and sophisticated enough to truly understand teh greatness conferred upon her by the intelligentsia.

MC

Steve Berven said...

I'm pretty sure that makes you racist. Or something.

Crotalus said...

No loss there.