Dialogue

Watching and listening from the hallway. Witnessing on of the many fights my dad and step mom would have. 

"How could you be talking to her?! You know how I feel about that!!"

"I have to talk to her... she is my kids' mother.  I don't have a choice."

"THIS ISN'T ABOUT THAT!"

"Stop."  My dad tries to calm her down as he starts walking toward her.

My step mom shoves him away.  "We were doing fine until now!!!"  

"We are still fine."

"I know you have been calling her!!  I see it on the phone records!"

"You have been checking the phone records?"

"I wouldn't if I didn't think I had to!"  My step mom throws her glass cup of water against the wall, still very angry.

"I am done talking to you about this."  "This is getting ridiculous."

My step mom runs down the stairs and slams the bedroom door for the 100th time.
My dad follows, the fighting continues downstairs.

Test Preparation #2

Caesura: A break or pause in a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of     the line. 

                 Example:                 An Essay on Man

                                                             by

Alexander Pope

Know then thyself II, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind II is Man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:

Test Preperation

Iamb:  A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.  

              EX:  Unite,  Provide 

Iambic Pentameter:  Iambic Pentameter is the name given to a line of verse that consists of five IAMBS.

                            EX:  if YOU | would PUT | the KEY | inSIDE | the LOCK

                                      da DUM | da DUM | da DUM | da DUM | da DUM

                          

1.  Is "daily" an example of an Iamb?

2.  What is the meter of your last name?

Howl Imitation

I saw the minds of my generation become robots that were obsessed with the newest and best technology

Who didn't care who they were hurting or who's lives they were destroying in the process of trying to make their lives better

I saw the minds of my generation fall so far into credit card debt that they eventually stopped caring about the money they will never be able to pay back, or the children they can't afford to feed, the parents they are taking advantage of, the government that is struggling to support them, and the job that they will never have

Who only care about where the next party is at and who is bringing the alcohol

Who live on unemployment so that everyone else can work hard to support them

Who hears about the endless teenagers that end up rolling their cars, running into other vehicles, going over the edge of the road, or running into guardrails because they are driving under the influence, yet they still choose to drink and drive.

I saw the minds of my generation care more about having fun than their higher education

Who eats fast food everyday and gains weight rapidly because family meals at the table no longer exist

Who can justify spending $90 on a pair of pants, but thinks that paying bills is overrated

Who go to the doctor for something as simple as a headache and leave with a prescription for 10 different pills that help you go to sleep, ease the pain, get rid of depression, make you happier, give you energy, boost your sex drive, and take away the headache

I saw the minds of my generation no longer care about face to face interaction, as long as they have their social networking sites

Who now meet their husband's and wive's online because it is simply too time consuming to find someone on your own, and being single for the rest of your life is just not an option

Who get pregnant at 16 and choose to keep it without knowing whether or not they will have the money to support the baby, or a stable home to live in

Who no longer thinks that working hard for what you want is the way to get things

Who listens to rap music while smoking weed

I saw the minds of my generation worry more about the new reality show on TV than their research paper due tomorrow

Who thinks that we should give more money to the unemployed, the woman with 5 kids, and the crackhead across the street, than the men and women out there fighting for our country

Who believes that abortion is a form a birth control

Who think material things are more important than family

Who look in the magazines and see the TV shows with all the beautiful women and decide that in order to look as good as they do they need to get a boob job and plastic surgery

Who can't do anything without downloading the app from the iTunes store first

I saw the minds of my generation not knowing what it's like to read a book for pleasure

Who would rather play video games and watch TV than go outside and play with their friends

Who spend $10 on a movie ticket and $6 on popcorn

Who think it is normal to see condom and male enhancement commercials on TV in the middle of the day

I saw the minds of my generation fall apart at the seams...

Imagist Poem

Applebee's

Lots of people coming in to get food

Red with hunger 

Sestina

SUMMER TIME

# Stanza 1
There is so much to do in the summer
Sitting by the pool tanning
Soaking up the sunshine
Taking friends and going camping
Spending a day at the Lake
Wearing your favorite jean shorts

# Stanza 2
Tan legs in short shorts
Ejnoying the summer
Picnics at the lake
Always going tanning
Buying tents for camping
Planting flowers in the sunshine

# Stanza 3
Lovin' all the sunshine
Buying a new pair of shorts
Spending your birthday camping
In the middle of the summer
There is nothing better than tanning
Going boating on the lake

# Stanza 4
Swimming at the lake
Staring at the sunshine
Ready to go tanning
Never taking off your shorts
School is out in the summer
Families are going camping

# Stanza 5
Every weekend is spent camping
If you get hot jump in the lake
Spend every minute outside in the summer
Kids are playing in the sunshine
Everyone is wearing shorts
Laying out in the sun tanning

# Stanza 6
Reading a book while you are tanning
Catching a fish while you are camping
Standing in your shorts
Being taken over by the lake
Missing the sunshine
when it's not summer

# Envoi
I only want to be tanning out by the lake
I wish I could be camping somewhere in the sunshine
I want to wear shorts I wish it was summer