2006 Poetry of the Mind Competition
First Prize
Humor Category
 

Gray(ve) Matter      by Caitlin Cardina

While strolling heaven's lilied plains,
Descartes and Shakespeare compared their brains.
The Bard puffed up: "Such jelly fine
Inhabited this skull of mine."
Descartes replied "Fine jam it was,
But now we both are barely fuzz."

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The 2006 Poetry of the Mind Competition was
Open to all Oberlin College Students
Sponsored by the Neuroscience Department

Judges: Pamela Alexander, Michael Loose, Lynn Powell