The first two readings for this week reminded me of last weeks last three readings because they appear to be word puzzles. The ones from last week and the first ones from this week both have a lot of similar words and phrases as the other by the same author. For example, the two by Susen Howe are the same words turned upside down for the most part with only a few extra and different words to each poem. The Ted Berrigan poems on the other hand had a different arrangement and in between words to change their meanings. Speaking of word Puzzles, I had a fantastic time reading and figuring out the clever word play that was the poem And What Do You Get, Only one or two of  her alterations lost to me, but that was because I didn't notice a letter or of two that was removed.
      I found the way How Light Is Spent portrayed blind people really interesting. The line "the vanity of the
blind" caught me by surprise since I have never thought the blind as very capable of being vain. Vanity has always stricken  as someone seeing them selves as more lovely then all those around. it is also interesting that the author would compare the blind to vampires, although now I think about it make perfect sense since both live in perpetual darkness, although vampires are seen as dangerous and indestructible and the blind are seen as incapable. Another interesting thing that the author compared the blind to are Forsythias, a very bright yellow flower.

      Lastly the Poems by Langston Hughes really caught my interest. They are so rhythmic and fun in the way they read that you can almost miss the more serious content of them rhymes. The fist one you can see a child saying, all except for the word "deferred" but it just adds an interesting flavor to the language of the poem. But the rest of them have a dark underlying message, pun not intended. Their about Racism, it shocked me when he used the "N" word, and a little more when he announced he was black himself. His children rhymes took me in so much I did a double that after reading the last line of the first one where it says "I know I can't
be President", having been told I could do anything I put my mind to most of my life, I could not believe he accredited such a self-defeating sentence to a child, but what do I know I am white.