Come on, It’s Just Little
Old
Me
Mr. Don’t Give a Fuck HEAL THIS CHILD
Fifth Grade Teacher Can’t Reach
Me
My Mom Can’t Either
HELP US DESTROY THESE DEMONS
These
People What’s on
Think My
Its Mind
A
Crime
They say I’m a criminal!
Oh, and please send me a brand new car
But
I’m
The bad
Guy? Who makes fun of people that die?
To So I drank
Fuck HOW THE FUCK YOU SUPPOSED more
Me up
TO GROW UP Liqour
rquicker
WHEN YOU WEREN’T RAISED?
GIVE ME AN AMEN!
Aint brave enough to say the stuff i say
So just tape it shut
I’m sick of her send her to the hospital
Response: The song/poem I chose to turn into my found poem was “Criminal” by Eminem. My method in creating this poem was to try and use at least one word/sentence from each verse of the song to create a cohesive sentence different from the base text. The original song is so offensive it was extremely difficult to use the words Eminem used in a different context then how he meant them. I tried to mimic the space on the page similar to how Zong! Was written. I noticed often times the spacing in the lines allows you to read sentences in different ways then you might have the way normal poems are written so i tired to play around with were i placed words to see if they could create different sentences in itself. From this experience I learned just how difficult it must have been to write Zong! It is such a difficult process to go through, using words meant for one context and replacing them to another, and it was really interesting to try my hand at!
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Hey Terrence, this is an awesome found poem. The best thing about it to me is that I could tell that it was from Eminem before I read your artist’s statement. Maybe that is because I’m an Eminem fan, but I didn’t know which song you used. I believe I get the message of your poem well and thought that you did a great job of taking Eminem’s words and creating a different message than the one he had in his song. I know this is very hard because as stated I am an Eminem fan and I know his music can be very deep and have a lot of meaning behind his words, but to go and take some of his words and make it into yet another message is very impressive. This poem will cause me to pay even more attention to when I’m listening to Eminem.