To Matt

“Madmans Lullabye” had good metaphors in them, while I’m not sure what the sheep were metaphors for, I think they were metaphors for the human race. The 6^th line of “Madmans Lullabye,” “down here we live for each day,” brought a few questions to mine of where “down here” may possibly be. I imagined it to be a land full of those suffering from insomnia. The 3^rd stanza about Big Brother was one I really liked because I felt I could relate to the feeling of pretending and hiding things from people. “My eyes are like faucets” was a nice way to describe crying, by relating your eyes to a faucet. The closing line to “Madmans Lullabye” was one I liked because it closed the poem well, and wrapped everything up for the reader, telling them that everything they just read is false and not to be believed. “The Anti Utopian Experience” reminds me of something Tyler Durden from Fight Club would have written and when I reread this poem, I imagined Brad Pitt standing in a dungy basement reading the poem to his crew of space monkeys. In this poem, I felt a thread of cynicism and overall negative attitude, which I liked because sometimes, I’m a sort of tired of reading romantic positive poems; I like the darker side of writing, while I more lately have been writing the romantic side of things. The line “purpose ran off with distraction years ago” spoke to me for a reason I am not quite sure of right now. The stanza about Hollywood, the 3^rd stanza, was one I liked because it was strong and forceful. The last stanza was my absolute favorite because it gives an identity to the poem. I am a fan of the closing stanza because it is a nice summary to the poem, but makes me wonder who the “we” is.