Friday, 11 November 2011

Brother- Stephany Mejia

BROTHER! BROTHER!
BROTHER give you headache
they make sister sick
BROTHER get on your neves
that you want to hit
they blame stuff on me
I say no
I never wish to have a brother
i rather have a sister
oh well
I have to have
Brother
there silly
there cool
and that
my brother

This poem actually made me laugh... It's really basic in terms of the word choices and lots of it is grammatically incorrect; I read it as being colloquial - I am unsure as to whether this was intentional - but it worked for me. The style reminded me of being a child and really wishing that I did not have to have a brother. Then there were the moments when we were really mischievous together, and would take the margarine from the fridge and use it to create a skating rink on the wooden kitchen floor. It was the latter part of the poem that evoked this for me - 'their silly, their cool'. This then inspired me to write something positive about our childhood.

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