Unfortunately, I missed last week’s class due to a health emergency and missed Professor Radhakrishnan’s lecture on Science and Poetry/Creative Writing. I am really sad that I could not make it – I was looking forward to it because chemistry was my favorite high school science and because I want to be better at creative writing.
I have been conducting light research on prions because the readings of past weeks have been difficult to understand. I have never been much of a creative writing person, so poetry has always been an area in which I feel inadequate at. Thus, I wrote three haikus, because those are the only forms I feel comfortable with. I have always been interested in rap though, which is also poetry (just not in the traditional form), and have given it a go.
Prion Haiku #1
Mis-folded proteins,
Currently being researched,
Ongoing debate.
Prion Haiku #2
PrPSC,
Makes normal proteins folded,
Hard to get rid of.
Prion Haiku #3
Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy, Cows
Fed Cows, Mad Cow.
A 36-Second Rap
(Beat Box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sZHzMty6U8)
Pri-pri-prions
Make it tough to get my beat on, yo
Pri-pri-prions
Uh, make it hard to get my brain on
Mis-folded proteins, don’t know what to do
How can we understand you
Prion hypothesis theory
Not accepted by everybody
Pri-pri-prions
Neurodegenerative disease
I don’t want it, no thank you please!
Pri-pri-prions, yo.
This was very entertaining and thus memorable. It was really creative to make something with so much rhythm.