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San Diego’s Poet Laureate puts down his pen
Rhyme Time’s Up
Perez: “For a while, I thought I could keep going if I just found some other words that meant the same thing. But the rhyme opportunities weren’t great there, either. Limit? Perimeter? Boundary? You can see the problem.”
“It’s been a good run, and we had some fun, but now I’m done,” says San Diego’s Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez of his two-year stint in the position. The reason he’s stepping down? “Put simply, there are only so many words that rhyme with ‘border.’ Of course, I used the easy one in my inaugural effort, ‘Border Disorder,’ which examined the public response to that photo of officers on horseback chasing down migrants. ‘Hoarder’ came during my rumination on American selfishness in the face of migrant need, and ‘recorder’ in my indictment of ICE’s reduction of these people to numbers on a spreadsheet. But by the time I got to ‘forder’ in my transgressive ‘Wetback’s Lament,’ I knew my time was growing shorter.” But while parting is always such sweet sorrow, Perez says there are things he’s looking forward to about returning to the private sector. “As a government-appointed poet, there are things you just can’t say about government policy,” he notes. I’m as frustrated as the next high-minded individual about Trump’s re-election, and about the role the Latino community played in helping him win. Naturally, I’m working out my pain through my art, and right now, all I’ve got is an opening couplet: ‘The Trumpy trouble started, methinks/ When all them Dems adopted “Latinx.”’”
Here's something you might be interested in.
San Diego’s Poet Laureate puts down his pen
Rhyme Time’s Up
San Diego’s Poet Laureate puts down his pen
Rhyme Time’s Up
Perez: “For a while, I thought I could keep going if I just found some other words that meant the same thing. But the rhyme opportunities weren’t great there, either. Limit? Perimeter? Boundary? You can see the problem.”
“It’s been a good run, and we had some fun, but now I’m done,” says San Diego’s Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez of his two-year stint in the position. The reason he’s stepping down? “Put simply, there are only so many words that rhyme with ‘border.’ Of course, I used the easy one in my inaugural effort, ‘Border Disorder,’ which examined the public response to that photo of officers on horseback chasing down migrants. ‘Hoarder’ came during my rumination on American selfishness in the face of migrant need, and ‘recorder’ in my indictment of ICE’s reduction of these people to numbers on a spreadsheet. But by the time I got to ‘forder’ in my transgressive ‘Wetback’s Lament,’ I knew my time was growing shorter.” But while parting is always such sweet sorrow, Perez says there are things he’s looking forward to about returning to the private sector. “As a government-appointed poet, there are things you just can’t say about government policy,” he notes. I’m as frustrated as the next high-minded individual about Trump’s re-election, and about the role the Latino community played in helping him win. Naturally, I’m working out my pain through my art, and right now, all I’ve got is an opening couplet: ‘The Trumpy trouble started, methinks/ When all them Dems adopted “Latinx.”’”
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