Submit a poem?

Transfer Students
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<p>Ok, so on the common app. there's an area to submit any additional info you want the admissions officers to know. I want to submit a really sardonic poem I wrote about a 17th century poet whose poetry sometimes frustrates me. Should I include it? What do you guys think?</p>

<p>p.s. i'm applying to uchicago and i think it would give them a chance to see another more playful side of me</p>

<p>*a final note i would like to add is that i wrote this poem more as a joke than anything. it's not meant to be judged for literary merit. i have poems that are serious but i think this one might be better b/c it shows a fun side to me.
agree or disagree?</p>

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<p>another qualm is the fact that i have one mildly profane word.</p>

<p>anyway, here are the first two stanzas.</p>

<p>O John Donne, O John Donne
Why can’t you be more funne?
Less psychotic, more neurotic,
You sex addict, too psychosomatic.</p>

<p>In your grave you’re likely tapping
Some seventeenth century ass,
Serious God rape, notwithstanding,
You’re likely having a masochistic blast.</p>

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<p>To be honest, I have no clue how that poem would be looked at by admission types, but if they react as I did you had better hope they are not drinking when they read it. Thanks for the laugh.</p>

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<p>In all honesty, I doubt that an adcom at UChicago would be entertained by the second stanza in particular.</p>

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<p>WOW… you are such a dare…
I did begin my Why transfer essay with two Chinese sayings and no explaination… Seemed that we did something in common… though yours r a little bit more… WOW…</p>

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<p>like i said i wrote it purely as a joke, and one of my profs. told me she talked about it in her recommendation and how i did it as a joke. if i did submit it, i’m thinking i would do it with a note explaining that it is sardonic and is not at all the type of poem normally write, and is not meant to be taken seriously…</p>