Fiction Packet

This week we are focusing on a short fiction packet that consist of several different poems all from various authors and all about a page or so in length. The poems themselves are all different and I believe that they are all suppose to come together being diverse to create an interesting read for its audience. Fiction is all about imagination and these poems are all so creative, they make sense to the author but to the audience, especially with fiction, they can create their own interpretation.

The poem that interested me the most was "Walking the baby to the liquor store". The caption alone catches my interest because babies are not allowed to drink and it seems as if someone is encouraging this behavior because they are walking the baby. Before even reading the poem and only focusing on the title I assume that this is about a baby drinking alcohol. After reading the poem it is very unclear and confusing, it never really says that the baby doesn't drink, in fact it says the baby does drink when Michael Ran Walleghen says, "Sometimes when we get home from the liquor store, the baby and I are so happy we even do the dishes and have a drink, by God, right there in the kitchen." It never says what kind of drink they have, but of course we assume it's alcohol if they're specifically going to the liquor store that is not close by, as Walleghen describes it to be, "unimaginably far". I would like this poem to make more sense because the writing style is very interesting and his diction is unique the way he never says the baby's name or give it a gender but just calls it "The baby". 

My favorite short poem out of this packet is by Sharon Krinsky and it's under "Mystery Stories" titled "Poetry". I started reading these and was confused because I didn't understand the point the author was trying to make but the poem, "poetry" made a lot more sense to me. I love the ending where she sums it up with, "I think they should be in a china cup" implying that what she has to say is important and valuable. He threw her thoughts into a plastic cup and would have never thought that was an offensive action but with girls and their over analyzing brains, it was a big deal to her because it meant he did not value or care what she had to say. These poems were written in different styles, patterns, diction, and lengths but they all come together to create a diverse short fiction packet that creates a name for itself through the imagination in the poetry and the way different people take fiction in completely new ways.