“Molly’s Champagne” is a poem based off of the song lyric, “Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it / took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it” from the song She Doesn’t Even Know it written by Rick Ross. I went along with this poem by interpreting that “molly” and “champagne” are the two bug key words. I decided to put those in the middle to grab the attention of the readers. I was inspired by Phillip’s strategy of how she replaces one word from a sentence and it changes the whole perspective on that certain sentence. For example I used “she ain’t even know it” and by the end of the poem I used “she ain’t ever know it”. I also loved the thought of “filling in the blanks” with a word to a sentence which I tried to incorporate in this poem as well. I also tried to go about when reading the poem you get that realization of maybe what the poem is about.
While creating this poem I realized how difficult it was to not just throw random words on a page, but to throw random words on a page with meaning. Difficult to portray your meaning behind the poem with room to interpret for readers as well. It changed my perspective on why Phillips created a whole book with a found poem technique. You start to appreciate the talent these writers have to create these amazing and thoughtful poems. I really enjoyed this project, it really brought out the creative side in me.
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