poem -- Incident

Handles gripped tightly

Hands sweating fiercely dripping on the heated concrete of a summer day

Wheels spinning faster than life leaving adrenaline lingering behind

Lanky man behind me slowly getting smaller as i roll away

Drifting as the hill gets to a flatten and the grass greets the concrete

The brakes are pressed 

The gears stop rolling

And the bike falls to the side

My helmet breaks my falls a small tear leaves my full brown eyes

And that's all i remember
Tears hitting the grass
And the grass sticking to my cheeks

Standing up was the hardest part

Response-- Audrey Hepburn

She looks back almost in despiration. Yearning for something long gone, something she hasn't had in a long time or never had. Her hair done up wearing a necklace looking like she was going to an event maybe she was looking for someone she was meeting. Maybe she was stood up or was looking for someone to not go alone. She definitley feels lonely and is looking for something feeling like she needs help.

response to starry starry night.

she excepts death, she welcomes it, and almost embraces it. It's not something she ignores or runs away from. She almost desires death, something she thinks of as an escape, instead of something people are scared of and feel isn't the answer, like she does. She finds living the scary part, the thing where she feels chained up and she thinks the only escape is to die. But not to die in some black hole, but under the stars, with a single black tree and a single pure soul being swallowed up to an escape of living. She is fearless and different she wants what she wants and knows how to get it. If she wants a beast to swallow her up into the night sky, then a women as brave as her deserves it,

Poem

Poetry is the sound of your feelings ringing out on a paper and tempting your reading taste buds
The sound of your heart beating through stanza's till everyone in the world can hear your thump
Poetry is the laughter in your heart , the glimmer in your eye , and the smile stretching across your face
The giggle that gives you that tickle that nothing can help take away
Poetry is the sound of chalk hitting the concrete drawing a hopscotch court
That feeling of fun approaching but not yet there
Poetry is that shiver in the winter, the heat in the summer, the breeze in the spring, and leaves in fall
The only thing that gets you excited for new things and helps you remember the old

                                                                     Enter Apathy
Enter Apathy
A fear you'll become some one not known or never shown
Enter a world of destruction and abomination
A life new to the ways of the past, But it won't last.
Drag yourself through hell and pain
Enter a world of fear and terror
Don't look back or loose your way
Enter Apathy
Exit here


The blurb of my book reads ; Enter Apathy, The title Exit Here.\

     The contradiction is so debatable which makes it a great topic for a poem. The idea is making you think and not letting you drag your brain across a sponge seeing that it is capable of absorbing information but not. It wants you to feel what it is saying. Because it is a sentence that has so much to offer. It gives you freedom to imagine what you think it means and it gives you direction of what you should be thinking. It's structured but limp, Strong but weak. But yet you can write an entire poem about these 4 words. Each one feeds into the other giving you ideas and imagery and a flow of pictures that race through your head, a million different possible things it could mean. But you chose one, this is the one i chose. What these four words meant to me. A story in and of itself but open ended for you to figure out.

Author's note.

My childrens book is based on the disease Anorexia. The definition by the word dictionary is . . . Anorexia- noun- Loss of appetite- Also called ANOREXIA NERVOSA a disorder characterized by the fear of becoming fat and refusal of food, leading to debility and even death. My story is about a girl named Jenna just tyring to fit in. She starts to float away from her personality and is no longer in touch with her conscience. She is trying to be like everyone else through what she wears, speaks and acts like instead of trying to be skinny. Anorexia and personality disorder both relate to the same problem of self image and acceptance from the people you are around. Both are a severe diseases. "The classic anorexia patient is an adolecent girl who is bright, does well in school, and is not objectivley." (Rutigliano) Normally it starts with a girl who is maybe a few pounds overwieght and begins to diet. Usually the diet begins healthy and then they find they aren't losing the wieght fast enough. They may turn to bulimia another disease related to anorexia which is- Abnormally voracious appetite or unnatraually constant hunger. It's Also called Binge-Purge-syndrome. And purging is the act of  purposley vomitting so you can eat but not gain wieght.  Patients of Anorexia either dont eat or eat and purge.The youngest girl diagnosed with anorexia has been 7 years old. The disease can also be diagnosed as late as 50,60,70, and sometimes 80. A lot of ages have been diagnosed with any two of the diseases Anorexia or Bulima and personality disorder.

Citation:
Annabella Rutigliano: Anorexia Nervosa-An issue of control
Dictionary.com-definiton of Anorexia, and Bulimia

research entry #2

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro03/web2/arutigliano.html
http://igreen.tripod.com/gerpe/id27.html

   throughout the past few years doctors have been diagnosing more people with anorexia. It is becoming a big problem for the U.S mostly in females. Only 10% of people with anorexia are  men. They say in the article that anorexia usually occurs in adolescent girls , who are bright, do well in school, and are not objectively fat. They have problems with their body image and believe they are fat so they either starve themselves or eat and then throw up which is another disease called Bulimia.  Eating disorders are becoming an epidemic. Wether you are over weight, skinny or in the early stage of either. throughout the U.S many of the kids have increasingly been getting more over weight and is becoming a severe problem. The first article is on anorexia the second is obesity.