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You know what is a dirty trick that English teachers and AP curriculum like to pull? Telling students that a particular poem is a concrete poem (that the shape of the poem reveals something about the subject). There was a poem in our book that looked just about like this paragraph (or how I predict this paragraph will end up looking, because I'm typing in a text box here), and le prof asked WHAT TYPE OF POEM IS THIS. [silence] IT'S A CONCRETE POEM: WHAT IS THE SUBJECT. [silence]

A PREGNANT WOMAN.

And it wasn't a joke. What the frick? Since when do pregnant women resemble rectangular blocks with jutting chins and NO PREGNANT BELLIES? Shit I hate that.