For Essay 1, write an explication of one of the assigned poe.docx
10 Things That Set Me On Fire
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3. I could write, ‘10 things I hate about you’ but its
sad ‘cause I need a bigger number.
The mood you put me in, is like setting me on
fire, screaming hot pain that burns my insides.
So the things you do to me is like setting me on
fire, every single time
In fact, its so often, I should be in ashes right
now.
You make me cause damage, you make me
cause destruction, you make me cause mayhem
but the only damage, and mayhem and destruc-
tion I cause, is too myself.
But these feelings, these feelings are like Legos
within my body.
I build them up inside me only for you to knock
it all down.
But then, then I forgive you.
Every. Single. Time.
I can’t stand you. So I’ll just sit back down.
4. He wears a bleeding crown
Tattooed lashes on his back
Always hunched over, wood upon his shoulders
Piercings on his ankles, piercings on his wrist
The voices right below us refuse to let him exist
Feared by many, but food he has plenty
He lives today but died around the age of 20
He’s got plenty pictures but not sure how he looks
He’s no author but he published a good book
His voice is hard to hear but he’ll follow you around
He’s floating on a cloud but with you on the ground
Bloody ankles, but he still walks tall
He may mute the gossip, but the man knows all.
5. Once I had a dog named Chuck
He liked to chase yellow ducks
He hunts for ducks in the park
And chases ducks until dark
He also loves to roam free
Chuck and I were meant to be
6. Nature’s beauty, fills up the world
A lovely sight for boys and girls
With grasses green and roses red
Lies fields with pretty flower beds
The sun glistens up in the sky
We hide as all the rainclouds cry
We must take care of Mother Earth
Before the world becomes too dearth.
7. There was a cow, a snake, and a goat
They all went inside a boat
The cow was too fat
So the boat went splat
But the snake and the goat stayed afloat