Numerical poem 2

2 twins born from a bipolar mother

2 seconds apart

sang a duet while eating biscuits

on bicycles

they fell on their biceps

and crushed their bowels

so that they both had to go to the hospital

riding on an ambulance using ethanol

the twins had to go through a biopsy

in which the general surgeon was bipartisan 

for that reason and to this day

the death of the two twins remains an disgusting case

Blog #6 5/27/09

For this blog post, I would like to make a connection from a quote to a song. Jo thinks, "Boy, you had to kiss another girl's boyfriend to know who your real friends were. In her case, that was absolutely no one" (Brashares, 211). This quote is talking about Jo, and how after she made out with Effies ex Zach under the boardwalk and she witnessed it, everyone that she considered to be her friends turned away from her and melted under Effie's command. I think that this exemplifies a mood of hurt and shock, because really, it shows how people just follow the person with the most power or popularity when it won't get anyone farther in life! A song I think relates and shows the feelings expressed by Jo is What Hurts the Most by Rascal Flatts. I believe that this song is a good connection to Jo's shock and hurt by when she realized all her friends had turned on her because it portrays loss and hurt. If you watch the music video, the song is supposed to portray the hurt and shock of a loved one being dead, and its repercussions on the people who care about that person that when it happens, everyone around them is crushed into depression and grieving. Of course, what Jo experienced is somewhat of a more common occurence than a death of a close friend or relative, but the song does represent again what Jo was feeling when it happened. Hopefully, things like these won't happen as much in the future, but they do and we just have to deal with them one step at a time.