Assignment:
Write your own poem about a marginalizaed person.
Kooser uses the metaphor of the circus wagon to explain the blind woman's experience of/relationship with the world. Create your own simile/metaphor for your subject's experience with the world
The way they approach the world
The way the world responds to them
Avoid feeling sorry for them or romanticizing them.
The Beggar
He saw a stray puppy sniffed commuters
on crowded sidewalks
and rummaged through trash.
The first instinct
people gave way to stay off it,
or looked straight forward
passing it with quick steps
pretending not to see.
After a while,
the puppy came to him,
rub itself on his leg
and settled down for a nap near him.
He touched its head as usual….
"Cling-clang,”
there comes two pence.
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