x Ways of Looking at Harold Bloom

[Here's another one from 1999, another assignment for another English class.]

x-11

In LC 317 a half-hour early,

There were chairs and dust,

And Harold Bloom sitting.

x-10

An undergraduate and his exgirlfriend

Are one.

An undergraduate and his exgirlfriend and Harold Bloom

Are one.

x-9

My mind was troubled but unreadable,

Like a photo

Of Harold Bloom grimacing.

x-8

What is more crucial,

A love for her

Or a love for myself,

Harold Bloom smiling

Or frowning?

x-7

Sunlight lit the cold bricks

From within.

Harold Bloom paused

As leaves rustled.

My mood

Stretched from tree

To Riverside effortlessly.

x-6

I know nothing

And the nothing it betrays;

But I also know

That Harold Bloom ate lunch

With every poet ever.

x-5

When Harold Bloom got in the elevator,

He left a void

That was identical to all other voids everywhere.

x-4

Confronted with Harold Bloom

Holding his own shoulder blade,

Even the perpetually prolegomenous

Must cut to the chase.

x-3

He flew first class

In a Boeing 747.

Once, terror gripped him,

Because he mistook

The engine of the plane

For Harold Bloom.

x-2

My love for her is growing.

Harold Bloom must be thinking.

x-1

It was darkness at day,

Raining without cease,

And I'd lost my umbrella.

I had not lost

Harold Bloom.

x

Harold Bloom drifted toward the men's room.

It was just one sentence in an imitation/parody exercise.