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The Knack for the Uncreative

She shows a knack

for the uncreative collection.

See, a rose in a vase.

Several different characters

from various movies

posing cartoonily around

the telivision set.

Black handles and White

handles arranged in

a wooden structure

on the counter waiting

for the cookies

cut from a bagged

collection of instruments.

The a sniffing hound

and worried cats

with shrill birds like the

imagination of a child

brought out in

the squalor of her

uncreative world.

Author notes

I have made the attempt at never saying what are contrary.  The two very big contradictions are "knack" and "Uncreative" and Young and Old. Having a knack for something means that person is good at something, which usually says they are creative in some way, creation through action. But, by the outside standard, she is a interior design disaster. This is put on top of a Young verse Old, with this older woman with her collections of young toys and animals, looking back to her childhood dreams. The real thing is this opion,"uncreative", is shown as the real problem, and it comes from the old.  I am not one to randomly celebrate youth, but I do find comfort in things from that era of my life.  There is something to be said for the resistance against the general society, because sometimes it is just too big to really know the individual.  This woman sounds like she has a life she is satisfied with inspite of the outside opion, which leaks its way into the poem through words like uncreative, squallor, and shrill.  This is another contradiction, the opinion of both the inside and outside are battling.  If these things are successful or unsuccessful, let me know what you think.  Thank you for reading.

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  • Danna Hobart
    November 12, 2007

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    Thank you for helping me to understand this contradiction. Is it based on someone you know? Just curious. Thank you very much for entering.

    • AaronReed
      November 13, 2007
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      Thank you for noticing and commenting. Comments are encouraging, but rare, hence the wonderful point system on this site. Honestly, no one person in particular comes to mind when I wrote this. It is rare to actually have a real person and situation in time. I sometimes do it if I have a really hard time with it and it becomes a history poem. For the most part, I try to come with parallel things in society and put them together in a way that is believable. I knew old ladies that did this, their houses smelt of the same candle smells that must have been fashionable of old ladies with animals and bad choices in decore and fashion. When I was a child and seeking to get ahead in the world, this was irritating because it was clearly what not to do. Now, I am older and looking for purpose and reason. This sort of old harkening back to the young appeals to me as I grow into the age when I will have children and have to find a way of relating to them. I have a friend a year younger than me that I based some of this on. He collects childish "junk" (what me and his fiance call it) and arranges it around his house. But, he is running some of the best youth ministry I have ever seen and I love his house almost over my own, if we didn't live so far away. So, in a way, yes, it is based on people I knew. Thank you.