This poem is formatted in the original Miss Rosie formating but is based on a close friend |
Please don't criticise on all the wrong punctuation, I tried to follow exactly how the original Miss Rosie poem goes like. I believe that Lucille Clifton made this poem with very little punctuation for a reason, can you figure out why? Enjoy these two lovely poems! Original Poem ~ when I watch you wrapped up like garbage sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato peels or when I watch you in your old man’s shoes with the little toe cut out sitting, waiting for your mind like next week’s grocery I say when I watch you you wet brown bag of a woman who used to be the best looking gal in Georgia used to be called the Georgia Rose I stand up through your destruction I stand up Lucille Clifton Parodied Poem ~ when I think about you it’s mind numbing like a brain freeze drinking, engulfed by the smell of tobacco and tea or when I think about you In the devil's army trying to find where you belong. selling, praying drugs and Satan mix too well I cry when I remember you you helpless Uneducated man who used to be the most imaginative kid around used to put a smile on my face I’m praying for you through your desolation I’m praying for you Pertius-Scriptor |