Rock 'em Out

My Blunder
by Amy Pence


The dragonfly throbs
its gilded thorax.
Brevity: one excuse.

My cup leaves a ring
on the news: “two-year-old
swallows crack, dies.”

There is no idle remnant.
The evening stippled
with signs. Her name

was Diamond. What else
denied? What else
left unhealed?

found at www.storysouth.com/poetry

I selected the song, "Where is the Love," preformed by the Black Eye Peas. This song focuses on questioning everyday problems in America such as child abuse, the war in Iraq, and gang problems. Throughout the video the primary focus is on a piece of paper with a red question mark on it. This singing group is obviously feed up with the problems in the country just as Amy Pence is in her poem, My Blunder. The speaker Pence creates addresses the problems with child abuse and the horrific incidents' the newspapers show everyday in which children have been the victim. Both the song and the poem reflect an unhappy attitude toward the direction in which America is going, both use a form of creativity to question and urge change in the country, finding the love.

video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojpbOJjrGBQ