A Blessing Imitation

Pulling up  to a house
Knowing I'll have a loving friend
To greet me at the door
Turn the keys on my car
The engine dies
I hear the excited barking
I get closer to the door
Whimpering is coming from underneath
As I crack open the door
A big black ball of fur pushes it open
Happy to greet me
A small horse of a dog almost tackles me
He sits beside me not wanting me to leave
As if I'm going to leave again for good
After he comes out to see me
Two more smaller creatures file out
A smaller dog and a cat
The cat is just about as big as the small dog
The bigger dog has long black hair
He has the mentality of a child
Loves Everyone but is especially loyal to his owner
He is a kind dog
Loving every day of his life
If only he was mine and not my brothers

can poetry matter

Poetry does matter because it is a form that may have been lost over the years but so many people are affected through the words spoken in poems. The nice thing about poetry is that some you can see clearly but then other times you have to interpret your own meaning to understand what you think the poet is writing about. Our lives would be boring if it didn’t have poetry in it, especially for the kind of people who are very romantic, because a lot of poems use words to describe things in such a short amount of time and you get this beautiful situation that someone is trying to portray and it actually gives you hope that there are people out there who are romantic and not just cold. People in this generation don’t want to be romantic or nice anymore and poetry helps out with this in a sense that even the most unromantic person can read a certain poem and it will remind them of something they loved or even lost at one point. These reasons are why poetry would matter I can’t imagine a word where there is no poetry it would be dull and boring. These abstract things called poems where people sit and right lines that you’d never think would go together but they were written just right for you to make sense of it, which is weird to me because just depending on who you are is how you interpret the poem. 

Blog 15

He Chuckled and said sure
U    /    U   /    U    U     /
Awesome thanks man
U     /            U     /
Alright man, math?
U           /       /
Concert
U      /
Come
    /
Now
    /
Silverthorne
   U      /
What concert
  U      U   /
Choir
    /
Shoot I can't I'm watching my nephew and his friend
   /      /   U     U     /    U    U    /    U    U    U    /
Bring em
 /        U
Ha I can't
U    /    U
Hey bro still at the concert
/        /      U U /      U  /
Nope, come on over
/            /       U   /
okay
/
well?
/

Distance

As the weather is turning
My mind starts to think
My brain feels like it's burning
My throat is in a kink

She is running through my head
Even though she is gone
I feel like I should be dead
Each day I'm more drawn

We are miles apart
The distance that kills
She's close to my heart
With so many thrills

Only time will show
I'll bring her laughter
As these feelings grow
It's her that I'm after

Simple Things

It's hard to believe
something as simple as that
can brighten my day
coming into the room
lying there on the bed
red bull and gum
can someone actually care
this is a confusing feeling
someone was thinking of me
this is all new
put together with a note
this is what it said
can't wait to see you
a smiley face came after
I knew at that point
that I was a goner for sure
theirs no one else like this
and it's her that I'm after

Comparison

A & P and Orientation are two short stories that have a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. I will be comparing both to understand the characters a little better and also to have a little better grasp on the stories themselves.

A & P is a little different in a few ways the fact that it’s all in a first person point of view for one thing. Also the manager in this is a lot stricter it seems like just by the fact that he kicks out these younger girls from his store just because of the way they are dressed which is a bit ridiculous. The writing style is different in this story. It’s told through the perspective of a person who is working there and there isn’t much dialogue between characters as much as just the thought process of the main character. This is similar because in this the entire time this clerk is judging these three girls walking through this store.

Orientation has an odd feel to the entire story as if the insight that the narrator is giving just makes you feel awkward. The narrator doesn’t give you much useful information on the job which is the same as A & P. You don’t get a great sense of the manager in this office but it seems like he doesn’t want to be bothered and doesn’t really care what his employees do to a point. The writing style in this is more commanding then anything the entire time the narrator is just telling information then you need to know a lot completely irrelevant to the job itself.

Both stories were good in their own sense I hope this brought up some points were these stories differ. To understand them even more I suggest reading them and comparing them.  

"A & P"

“A & P” was written in a man’s prospective, the female role in this short story was little to almost none at all. The most reaction you have with the females that it was describing was when two of them had small lines at the end of the story. This story just picked apart at these three female character physical and social status which had to be assumed just by looking at them. In all honesty this story just capitalizes on what men do still to this day and this was written almost 50 years ago so it’s a little sad this mentality hasn't changed. From the instant the women walked in the cashier couldn't function while he was doing his job he just watched them and was day dreaming about them and what their lives were like. At the end the cashier who watched these females all through the store helps them at the register which he was like any other guy or at least how I pictured it. His manager then wakes over there and rudely embarrasses them by bringing attention to the fact that they were in bathing suits which was rude on his part. The cashier was trying to stick up for these females who were just embarrassed but he did it not to necessarily stick up for them but to make himself look like the hero in their eyes but his plan backfired because they already left so he had to go through with it anyways. So he did try to redeem himself from horribly judging them but still for the wrong reasons. This entire story was straight from a man’s head and still today this is what goes on which is not okay.