RACING

Poetry response #2

2005-05-22T21:30:00.000-07:00

I picked this poem because it was flipped. Because when you think of Smokey the bear you think of fire safety freak. When I read this poem I thought it was cool just hearing his hat was cocked. Then I heard now he is going to show them how a professional does it. That made me flip I was like wow how does that happen?

FLAMES

2005-05-22T21:12:00.000-07:00

Smokey the bear heads
into the autumn woods
with a red can of a gasoline
and a box of wooden matches.

His ranger's hat is cocked
at a disturbing angle.

His brown fur gleams
under the high sun
as his paws, the size
of catcher's mitts,
crackle into the distance.

He is sick of dispensing
warnings to the careless,
the half - wit camper,
the dumbbell hiker.

He is going to show them
how a professional does it.

--Billy Collings

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POETRY RESPONSE #1

2005-05-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

I chose this poem because the title caught my attention I mean shooting rats at the county dump wouldn’t you read a poem that had a title like that? Another reason I chose this poem is because it was funny and I usually don’t like poems at all no matter what they're about. But this one is different it was funny and interesting. I mean getting drunk and then go to the dump and shoot rats that's a little weird.

good for uShootimg Rats At The County Dump

2005-05-19T08:55:00.000-07:00

Shooting Rats at the Bibb County DumpDavid Bottoms

Loaded on beer and whiskey, we ride
to the dump in carloads
to turn our headlights across the wasted field,
freeze the startled eyes of rats against mounds of rubbish.

Shot in the head, they jump only once, lie still
like dead beer cans.
Shot in the gut or rump, they writhe and try to burrow
into garbage, hide in old truck tires,
rusty oil drums, cardboard boxes scattered across the mounds,
or else drag themselves on forelegs across our beams of light
toward the darkness at the edge of the dump.

It's the light they believe kills.
We drink and load again, let them crawl
for all they're worth into the darkness we're headed for.

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BRANDON'S POETRY BLOG

2005-05-19T08:45:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to my blog. Listed belowis 2 poems and my response to them. Leave some comments about this poem if you want to. Anyway thank you for choosing BRANDONS BLOG as your poetry stop today.