Poetry Packet 1 (Absent sorry) =[

I was reading the poetry packet and I thought of it to be very interesting. These stories are very confusing and to make no sense. They talk about one subject and then jump to something not truly in the same category. For instance in the story "Survivors" they were talking about who wanted to die first, because "didn't want to deal with lovers family" since they knew there sexual orientation. Then they jumped to ..."tropical birds" which I didn't completely understand.

"Walking the baby to the Liquor store" was a crazy piece. I had felt many different emotions. At first I had thought the father was a bad father with a bad habit. I felt as if he was doing one bad thing and making it up by taking the baby for a walk. He says "..He wouldn't give these up for the world" his adventures or the liquor? I was very confused on this part. So I also believe that he doesn't know how else to be a good father, but taking her on these walks.Yet, I had a different vision that he was just trying to make the baby more aware of things like bad substances so  he took her to the store. Also, he wanted her open her vision away from just what she knows "mommy, daddy, banana, and dogie".

I also had read "Misdemeanors". This short story was very funny to me. When he "took off his socks and put them on his hands" I thought as if he didn't put much thought into what he was going to do. He just kind of winged it. He also "walked down the street with the socks on his hands" still?? Normally, most people who would have done that would have hurried and at least put socks back on their feet. I just thought this was tremendously funny. I also liked how the author had said "he was a penny short from a felony charge". I had thought that was very ironic, because he just robbed the bowling alley the waitress had said.

Blood Dazzler

            In the book of poems called Blood Dazzler really intrigued me. I believe Patricia Smith is one of the best writers I've read. She makes you feel as if you are right there in the disasters. She makes you tremble for those who have experienced these horrendous things.

I really loved the way she had started this piece off. She started off with MartiGra because many people are familiar with that. She relates this to the hurricane because after the party its a disaster "Its shattered beads, stomped flowers, and vomit" and after the hurricane it was also a disaster.

I especially, like the Voodoo money poem. She makes you think of what is really in control. Money has a great control of us. Well after the hurricane she believes money cant save us "Money passes through hands...won't ever spend well". After the Katrina had hit New Orleans people were stealing televisions and dumb priceless things like she said "a shield against weather, you will know. It's too thin to hold tomorrow back". In other words the Voodoo poems tell us about things like how incentives control us not how we control them like we believe.