Sestina

1. State

2. Orange

3. Pineapples

4. Phone

5. Tooth

6. Money

 

I was in a state

Of shock, everything went orange,

Steve-o wacked me in the head with a pineapple,

Then he got on the phone,

I was missing a tooth,

It was going to cost a lot of money

 

I don’t know where I was going to get this money

We left the Garden State,

Back into New York to get a replacement tooth,

I wasn’t able to eat anything and Steve-o kept tempting me with an orange

My mom got on the phone

With me, “Wherd’ you get a pineapple?”

 

Who cares about the pineapple?

The real issue was where was I supposed to get the money,

I got back on the phone

With mom, the state

Will pay for now, the eyes of the orange

Were all over me, It would be mighty hard to eat without my tooth

 

The size of the fake replacement tooth,

It was the size of a pineapple,

And it was a shade of a yellowish-orange,

Almost like the dentist knew I didn’t have the money

The operation, so he gave me an awful one so we didn’t owe the state

Too much, I wanted to let my mom know but there was no phone

 

Who needs a phone,

It is not worth it when I could tell people through my own teeth

In person, I got friends all over the state,

I got one friend that lives under the sea in a pineapple

Whose name is Spongebob, But that trip costs a lot of money,

Maybe a phone is as important as the Bowl of the Orange,

 

It is a very important game the Bowl of the Orange,

At halftime they give away the new Samsung Instinct Phone,

That costs a lot of something I don’t have money,

That incident with the tooth

Really had me spent, My baby girl wasn’t able to have her daily helping of pineapples,

Too bad I didn’t get the tax refund from the state

 

A money tree would have been my new front teeth on Christmas

Instead I god a bloody Envy 2 phone in orange

Spongebob invited me to his pineapple but I couldn’t make it and he is illegal in the state

the story of his life

 

 

Fast Food Blues

Why is there fast food- it is so bad for you

Why is there fast food- it is so bad for you

Afterwards it really makes you poo

 

God it tastes so good, but why oooh why is it so bad for you

God it tastes so good, but why oooh why is it so bad for you

It looks really good, but it is just greasy goo

 

It takes little out of my pocket, order right off the menu of the dollar

It takes little out of my pocket, order right off the menu of the dollar

All the juicy goodness makes me wanna hollar

The Analyzation of the Poem "Bluebird"

Name: Justin Sunseri

Poet: Charles Bukowski

Poem’s Title: Bluebird

 

1. The structure of the poem is stanzas that all start with the same starting line (there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out).
2. The key words/patterns are there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out that start each stanza.
3. Vocab- 1. Weep- to shed tears of sadness

 

1. What is going on in the poem is that a man is talking about another side of him that he doesn’t like to let people see.
2. The literary speaker (the person speaking in the poem) is Charles Bukowski.
3. The dominant images made (description, 5 senses) are he inhales cigarette smoke.

 

1. The poet’s attitude toward the subject is that he has this alternate side to him just he doesn’t think others will like it.
2. The authors diction (use of big words) and employment of poetic devices conveys that he wanted everybody to be able to understand what he was talking about, not just a mature audience. 

The Analyzation of the Poem "We Real Cool"

Name: Justin Sunseri

Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks

Poem’s Title: We Real Cool

 

1. The structure of the poem is two lines of rhyming then a new paragraph.
2. The key words/patterns are rhyming. The first paragraph rhymes with cool, the second is late, the third is sin, and the last is June.
3. Vocab- 1. Lurk- to stay hidden as if waiting for something

2. Gin- alcohol

 

1. What is going on in the poem is that pool players are being described. What they have done and what they do.
2. The literary speaker (the person speaking in the poem) is one of the pool players.
3. The dominant images made (decription, 5 senses) are they taste the gin.

 

1. The poet’s attitude toward the subject is that pool players aren’t good people and they are going to die from fooling around too much.
2. The authors diction (use of big words) and employment of poetic devices conveys that this was a very easy poem to write and that anybody can understand it. 

Metaphor Poem

Enemy

 

You are the gum under the desk

The yellow snow I fell in

 

You are the fat kid of my youth

The me that I hate looking back at and realizing how big I was

You are the Plaxico Burress

Goes to jail for shooting yourself, pathetic

You are the awkward silence

It came from being the annoying person that says excuse my French

 

You are the half an hour infomercial

Nobody’s eyes are on you

You are the pair of socks I don’t like to wear

You are the leftovers at dinner

I won’t want them again later

You are the Christmas gift that I always want to return

A week later that flat football we sadly had to use if we wanted to play

 

You are the tissue in which I blow my nose

The snot rocket of a lifetime

You are the toilet where I let out my waste

Smell like a taco after its been through the body

You are the trash bag with the hole in it

It is the mess of all messes

You are the dirty jock strap

 

You are the ashes after the fire burns out

The black that dulls my day to its end