e.e. cummings Assignment #4

since feeling is first

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis






i know now not to trust the rising sun

i know now not to trust the rising sun
when darkness is what i deserve

will this wish be my last?

in the shadows i'm safe
in the light i am not me
the girl who plays a part under the lights

but come after darkness
come with me
i'll show you my true self
come with me
and let yourself fade into

the night.

Lee Assignment #3

It's up and down all the time
Sometimes its love
Other times its loathing
A pure hate that I can't control
That's now

But when I was young...it was all different
Up in his arms, on top of his shoulders, I was on top of the world
Whether it was up on stage, under a hundred lights
Or up on the couch, in front of the family
He was there for me, supporting me
And now
That's all that makes our love emerge again.

Vonnegut Assignment #2

When some people fight with their friends, usually it’s over something pretty stupid and unimportant like where they’re going this weekend, or boyfriends, or having the same shirt or something along those lines. Don’t they realize that there are more important issues going on in the world besides whether or not you look fat in that shirt or are having a bad hair day? High school is really one big soap opera. No one really has a point in fighting over anything they usually do. Everyone gossips about everybody else’s business, and I’m not saying I don’t, because I do. You have to learn who you can trust and who you can’t, because if you trust in the wrong people, they might just turn around and stab you in the back. If you have one good friend who you can trust, you’re pretty much set for the duration of high school, because no one can go it alone.

Hemingway Assignment #1

You know what its like during the summer, at dusk, when the sun never seems to go all the way down. Feeling the chill of the evening slowly creeping up your legs. Thinking that you never have to go back to real life, just staying there in the moment of freedom, and bliss, forever. But there wasn’t as much bliss this evening as there usually is.
“I don’t understand why you have to go…you said it would be different this time.”
“I told you,” he said, trying to calm her, “I just don’t feel like we were getting along as well as we were a year ago.”
“If that’s how you feel I guess I cant do anything to make you stay, but I really wish you’d change your mind.”
“I can’t. My mind is made up,” he whispered, and slowly walked away, leaving her in tears.