Improv of "Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing"

So I thought to myself after reading the poem, what would she feel like after dancing each day?

Nothing is more opaque
than absolute transparency.
Look- the smiling comes to an end
and all the men retreat
home to their bundled, glove selling women,
with tight upper lips and paychecks.
But they sneak back tomorrow-
green bills in hand, to exchange
for visions, suspicions
and counter-top dances.

Junkyard Quotes 7, 8 and 9

"You can be the King Kong banging on your chest."
-The Script

"Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street."
-Taylor Swift

"Probably shoulda washed this- smells like R. Kelly's sheets."
-Macklemore

Improv of " Traveling Through the Dark"

After reading this poem, and before we did the draft in class, I was intrigued by Stafford's use of the impersonal language mixed with the personal. That section "It is usually best to roll them into the canyon:/ that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead" stuck with me. I wanted to try that myself leading to the riff...

Hiding in the woods I spotted a walker-
dead, but dragging feet and gurgling moans along I-20.
It is usually best to stab them in the brain:
a gun is loud; to shoot will make more dead.

**for those who don't watch The Walking Dead...I am sorry.

Improv of "The Promise"

I decided, after reading Sharon Olds' poem "The Promise," that I really liked the last line: "...if the ropes/ binding your soul are your own wrists, I will cut them." So I extended it.

...if the ropes
binding your soul are your own wrists, I will cut them. But,
merely fraying the braided wool laughs
at the quaking desperation
of my fingers.

Junkyard Quotes 4,5 and 6

"being told I'm gorgeous makes me feel like money bouncing off my ass after I leave the strip club."

"I'm gonna lock you in a closet and bury that closet alive."

"I'm not really a hot dog off a roller kind of guy."

--I can't remember where I heard these...I think the first was something someone tweeted one time, the second was something I heard while on campus and the third was something a friend's father said...

Junkyard Quote 1,2 and 3

" [The root beer soda fountain] is full of dirty water and lies"
-Ashley
*this caught my ear and reminded me of why I loved language so much

"[Childhood is] a Tiger Flower blooming Magenta for one day"
-Tina Fey

"I have two rhinoceroses on my forehead"
-Leah talking about her acne

IT STARTS AGAIN!

Just letting everyone know...FROM TODAY starts the actual blogging cycle again.
That is all.