05-18-2016, 12:34 PM
(05-18-2016, 09:17 AM)BecktheDog Wrote: The upstairs room feels like a spaceship. this line makes the rest of the poem a non sequitor. Space ships don't take people from one place on earth to another. And generally they go up, not downstairs. Also, phrasing it as "the upstairs room" makes it seem as if your not there, while the last sentence says you are. The purpose of this dichotomy is not established in the poem as it sits.
A vessel to conduct my extracurricular endeavors sounds like masturbation
that will take me anywhere:
to Malaysia. establish a reason why this is I important
or Alaska.
to save my sick mother I thought we might be making a transition here
or explore the inner workings of Walt Whitman's mind. nop
why is that last stanza even important or relates to the spaceship?
I've entered a ship with the windows closed.
That contains all my gear for anything or anywhere. this is poor Engrish
Mental preparedness and physical appropriation
to make it happen. make what happen!
I'm here with a feeling of inspired contentedness.
This is my place.
I'm ready.
I think I'll go downstairs...

