Blog #5

The readings assigned for 9/15 are very different than the ones we have read before. I feel all of the poems for this week have to do with dying. Most of them talk about somebody using alcohol. They also speak of some type of insect. I am not sure of the meaning of this. They speak of spiders and deadly beetles which both could cause death. The poem I chose to write about is "Chicken Bucket" by Jennifer Knox. I found this poem sad. I felt Cassie was doomed from the start. She seemed to be a normal child at some point in her life because she talked of being in 4-H. Her home life was not good at all. Cassie's mama and her boyfriend were not good role models because they abused alcohol and drugs with Cassie. I feel she had sex with these men to fill a void in her life. The fact that she behaved like this is in a sense the "death" of her innocence, her childhood. Death occurs again when she gets back home and she can't find her mother. Rick knows where she is but doesn't tell Cassie. He then marries Cassie and they have a baby. I find this poem sad and their are probably a lot of young girls going through this type of situation even here in America.