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Hayes Freedom High School is Cuckoo for Haikus
Posted by Sarah | 01 March 2011 | Comments (4)
After reading Ken Kesey's legendary novel, Stephanie Spencer's students at Hayes Freedom High School created haikus describing the main characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Check them out!
Randle P. McMurphy
Welcome to the Ward.
He's cool and he doesn't care.
Cards are his main thing.
--Kevin B.
An American
Scruffy, unbathed, and vocal
He brings down the walls.
--Tony A.
McMurphy is strange
He is smart yet has been caged
He will find a way.
--Tressa W.
Fights and f***s too much
Mean, rude, and ill-tempered
Insane or faking?
--Mykynna C.
Big, brash, ladies' man
Obnoxious but kind-hearted
Voice of the patients
--Cory M.
McMurphy so loud,
So happy and proud he is
Laughing through the ward
--Jessica H.
Chief Bromden
This story is mine
There is a genius inside
Please just read my mind.
--Robert O.
Sweeping back and forth
Not listening but hearing
Machinery there
--Jessica P.
Nurse Ratched
Mechanical arms
Reaching forward to consume
The souls of patients
--Tony A.
Satan in disguise,
Ratched the controller
will rip out your eyes.
--Tiffany W.
Cold, firm, unmoving
Ruler with an iron fist
Keeps the ward in mist
--Cory M.
Porcelain faced
She always maintains control
She's not who she seems
--Natasha N.
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Comments (4)
Big Chief doesn’t speak
He sees things others cannot
The Combine runs on
Nurse Ratched: so mean
Somebody oughta choke her
I know just the guy.
Cheswick tried so hard
to find his voice on his own
but it took too much
(thanks again for featuring my kids! They are immensely thrilled and looking forward to seeing the show :D)
I laugh and I drink,
so I report to a shrink,
and now I can’t think.
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