2 poems
I wrote these for my class. I'm gonna submit a poem to some contest on monday. So tell me which one you think is better. if you feel so inclined.
Her poem
It’s so easy to be misunderstood.
Like some hateful architect, constructing
Bridges that don’t go anywhere
Forging monstrous towering office buildings
With crooked labyrinth hallways and flaming
Hula-hoop doors. The workers e-mail
Each other relentlessly, trying
To find the logic in all of this, wanting
Desperately to believe that it’s anything
Besides an elaborate ploy to piss them off.
The experimental designer pounds
His tiny fists
Against the graph paper.
Like a high school band director
Furious at the percussion section that
Didn’t even look at his notes
She handed me her poem.
This misanthropic blueprint
I sat here in the back of my brothers minivan, wriggling
My eyebrows at it, wondering
How long should I pretend
To be reading it. Or
Should I just crumple it up now
And throw it to the floor
Grab her by the shoulders and shake
Her back and forth, yelling
I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care.
Dog Bites and Alcohol
(Assuming Everything Goes According to Plan)
When I’m an old man, I’m gonna live
In a mansion, like the one I’m living in now.
I’m gonna buy like six German Shepherds
Become an alcoholic and
Just pick fights with them
All the livelong day.
Local children will dare each other to
Break into my house
They’ll be chased off by the dogs
Like so many ex-wives
One day I’ll take it too far
With one of the Germans.
The other five will come to my aid
But it will be to late
Days later they’ll find me
Dead in the billiard room
Of a lethal combination of dog bites, and alcohol
Poisoning, and heart attacks
However the obituary will only say heart attacks