For this week, the poem I have found to be the most interesting is called "Wallet" it's begins with a child taking about their father being upset because his wallet gets stolen. Then the fun begins... the father devises a plan to trick a thief into taking a worthless fake wallet. At first it seems like a store about trying to get back at the thief but the poem uses interesting wording like how the little boy refers to himself as the getaway driver and his father is "casing" a department store. Making it appear as though their little trick isn't so innocent as it seems and when they finally are caught by store clerk, the father makes a break for it and tells his son to "drive fast" as if they had really committed a crime. It's a very lighthearted story and I feel it's about how being a good parent involves teaching our children to not take the heavy and stressful things like getting your wallet stolen, affect the way you live and enjoy your life.

My favorite poem from class this week was called, "And What Do You Get" I really like that it's a play on words and that it really makes you re-analyse each word of each sentence. It says, "take double you from anybody's will"- which you can look at that and just think it makes no sense or it could possibly mean the letter "w" and that leads you to the word ill!

My favorite poem form the poetry we have been covering in class recently is The Scent of Verbena.
I think that the strange structure of the poem is relative to the growing intensity of the content, and it really brings your focus to the poem itself. In the begin of them poem, the author describes a man and his companion, the companion obviously holds a resentment against this man and the eventually kills him or says that he will die soon. I've never read a poem quite like this one. It's very eerie and unlike most poems, it involves the concept of revenge and murder.
-Marissa