Tuesday, October 27, 2009

poetic perspectives

So we're wrapping up my first month of blogging (applause), and I feel pretty good about this whole thing. It's another notebook for me to add to my collection, as I've exausted a few and started another one that's this awesome ugly yellow color. (I love composition books!)
So I do want to put an after-note on some of these entries, poems, rants, etc.
We're pretty much all adults here, and I'm sure we can handle all adult content at its best and worst.
But I definitely want to address perspectives. In classes, we all learn about "first person", second, third, lalala.
Most of my work is written in first person/"I"--whether it's in my poetry, fiction, and especially nonfiction. This blog is my regurgitation of all forms of writing, and (with the previous entry "Adam's Apple" for an example,) my speaker doesn't always mean me.
For example, the speaker in "Adam's Apple" is a young, confused, sexual girl. Although I am young, confused, and love talking about sexual things, she is a character--a speaker--that lives in my head. Just as characters like Caleb, Ruth, a nameless girl, etc. also live in my head. (These are story ideas, by the way.) In my head, there is a woman who has just undergone a sex change, and a man who falls in love with her. When this guy finds out his girlfriend used to be a man, he goes nuts, starts walking around malls, auto shops, fitness clubs, etc. to check out his gaydar. He tests his own physical attraction for others, and frantically tries to find out of he is also attracted to men.
I also have a cat named Felipe that lives in my head. But I think it's because I want a cat named Felipe. However, I think he could definitely contribute something to the cause.

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