It’s
where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide
ARMED
YOUTHS KILL
UP TO 23 IN 4-HOUR SIEGE AT HIGH SCHOOL
murdering many people,
typically simultaneously or over a relatively
short period of time.
GUNMAN
TURNS 'BATMAN' SCREENING INTO REAL-LIFE 'HORROR FILM'
Cause
I'm losing my sight, losing my mind
Wish
somebody would tell me I'm fine
an act of a human killing another human
MASS
SHOOTING AT CONNECTICUT ELEMENTRY SCHOOL
I'm
coming undone
Irate
I'm
coming undone
Too
late
I'm
coming undone
One
looks so strong
So
delicate
Wait
I'm
starting to suffocate
And
soon I anticipate
I'm
coming undone
Sources:
ReplyDeleteDemons by Imagine Dragons
http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/columbine-high-school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder
Last Resort by Pappa Roach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20347474/mass-shooting-at-connecticut-elementary-school
Coming Undone by Korn
I really liked the song lyrics you used. It gave me a emotions and images that went along with news headings. They were news headings that I remember hearing about and I remember all the devastation going around from the people on the outside of the situation. What I also really liked was the different points of views. The song lyrics give the reader an inside view of what a shooter might be feeling which makes it more personal. On the other hand, the news headings give the reader what is happening on the outside, which also gives a new set of emotions for the reader. Great job with picking out the pieces!
ReplyDeleteWith a theme of young shooters, their headlines flowed nicely as the various song lyrics helped carry out what the people might be thinking at the time and possibly during the time of their attacks on the innocent. Most of these acts of violence are brought about by bullying by others which causes them to act in a way that isn't reversible. These headlines show that the shooters actually killed people and whether their stories are from bullying, video games, or even song lyrics, we may never know their true intentions. The shooting took place from different locations and you pointed that out with an high school attack, elementary school, and a theater. All together, good job on bringing all these together and arranging them in such manner.
ReplyDeleteMellisa,
ReplyDeleteI like how your poem captures the confusing and surreal nature of mass shootings, particularly those perpetrated by adolescents. You accomplish this through the use of headline/report fragments that never give us the full picture of what has happened, thus leaving a lot of questions. Your poem further draws our attention to the problem of adolescent mental illness or anguish---through the song lyrics---and how, undiagnosed or untreated, both can erupt in violent ways. You're poem is timely since there on ongoing debates about such shootings and ways to either avoid them or reduce the damage done by them.