Double Standard
Found poetry for April 4, 2022 National Poetry Month Poetry Challenge
The summary for the Hidden Brain podcast explains: “It’s easy to spot bias in other people, especially those with whom we disagree. But it’s not so easy to recognize our own biases. In the latest in our “Mind Reading 2.0” series, “Double Standard” we revisit a favorite conversation with psychologist Emily Pronin. We’ll look at one of the most bewildering aspects of how we read minds — in this case, our own.”
In a way this is fan poetry. I love the Hidden Brain Podcast and have been thinking for a while about a poetry project based on the episodes. April is National Poetry Month and I hope to write at least one or two haikus collected from the words in the Hidden Brain transcript for every day of April 2022. These are sometimes called blackout poetry where the poet is faced with a sheet of paper with text and uses a black marker or pen to blackout all the words they don’t want to use and leave the poem, the visible words. All the context is blacked out so often something completely new emerges in the poem.
Double Standard
accuse all selling
lies manipulate blind facts
reality gauge
different heads heart
experiment halo prey
bias all other
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you a good judge fair
of course I am all around
except one place you
Seeing Bias, a Persona Poem
Bias is easy to see
the facts clear as day
there and there
even over there
yes far over there is the worst
I see bias everywhere outside
but there is none here inside
me
―Found poems / blackout poetry / erasure haikus / persona poems by Kimberly Burnham from Hidden Brain podcast https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-double-standard/ from an interview between Shankar Vedantam and Emily Pronin.
