/lit/ - Literature

> mfw nobody will ever write about the modern party culture

Here's a question for you, /lit/:

You are given the chance to teach to a group of college students about one novel for a semester - what book do you teach and why?

>>1914691

> a fucking cane.

It's like 2 in the morning and I decided to write a poem - tell me what you think /lit/.

> The Third Man

You can see them walk together,
mimicking fresh spirals between hands;
her strut whacks another pavement step.

The rigid backpack looks sick for that perky face-skin,
weaved bound; those middle-aged minivan angels gushing,
the same smiled you smile to his grope.

from here,

yet there was more to you
you twaddle nails over your keys
not rest his cries, solemn.

and
you danced in his dances
that he danced of dancing

and
rash – infection love-bed nightmares
yet he smiles such

From here, who sat in his view, cradling sight,
caressing your lush memory, from here,
beauty followed you.

> A portrait of an elderly man marrying off his last of 3 daughters, in which he faces the turmoil intertwined within his previous 2 daughters as the marriage culminates, ending in ultimate tragedy and his personal downfall.