Subculture?

This is a true story about a poetry reading recently attended.

While mingling at the open mic event,

I met a student, charming and well-meant,

who told me she was here since she’d been sent

by her professor as an assignment.

 

“Are you an English major then?”  I asked.

“Oh, no,” she said, “it’s social sciences.”

A bit surprised, I asked why she’d been tasked

to form such poetic alliances.

 

“New to the area, I thought it wise

to go to listed readings where I’d find

a local subculture to scrutinize,”

which was the project that she’d been assigned.

 

“And here, all along, I had been thinking

we were the culture,” …guess we’ve been sinking.