Bring Me Poetry Revisited (Not a Video)

Those who are expecting a music video, please tune in later. This is a poem. However, I would probably handsomely reward anyone who turned it into a rock anthem. Or maybe a club remix with extra back beats. The possibilities are endless...for those who have spare time.

This week my students are working with figurative language, as well as looking at life through different points of view. So I decided to have them write a collection of "Bring Me" poems. I stole this idea from my good friend Andria when she presented at the CUWP Summer Institute 2009. She took them from Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge's book Poemcrazy. I've posted about this before back in October of 2009. If you are unfamiliar with my "Ode to My Dorito Crumbs," check it out. You might sense a running theme. But, anyway, here is today's "Bring Me" for your pleasure (cough cough):

“Plea to the Lonely Fruit Chew I Found This Morning”

Smooshed orange Starburst

lying in melted graying snow puddles,

protected from the yellow

bellowing monstrosities

but

trampled by the feet of exuberance,

Shake off

the rogue spruce needle

and the remnants

of dirt-caked soles,

and

Bring me the story

of your pocket escape,

of disappointment,

of the child

whose mouth you will

not tempt

during first period U.S. history

when texts and lectures and mouths

become dry.