Journal Six from Dathan

Part One:
The piece that I enjoyed the most from this paper was The Second to Last Supper. It is about an inmate that is waiting to be executed.

1) The first thing that I noticed about it was the fact that until you got around the end it doesn't actually say that he is a prisoner waiting to die, the man who is getting for for him is a guard and it doesn't mention a prison at all. Even though it becomes obvious well before then end what is happening, I still think it was cool how he evaded what was really happening.

2) Another thing that I like about this one was the ending. Once you know that it is centered on prisons and knowing that the title is The Second to Last Supper it is not too far of a leap to guess how it is supposed to end. Prisoners on death row can order whatever they want, within reason, if anything is missing that is within reason from their list their execution gets pushed back. The prisoner just ordered a lot of food, nothing too hard to find, practically anything that you could find at a fast food place. Their was one item that the guard in charge of getting the food could not find, and tried to avoid the subject, hoping that the prisoner would not notice; it was orange juice. The best part about the item being orange juice is that the state they are in is Florida. So, in the end his execution gets postponed, and he gets another meal.

3) In one of my other classes we went to Marion Correctional Institution. We met some of the inmates their, I didn't think it would be anarchy or stabbings but it was still different than what I expected; they are just people, real people. This story is a little ridiculous, but I could see someone doing it. I mean by telling the guards that they forgot something you push back you execution and get another meal.

Part Two:
I'm honestly not too sure which has improved more. I fell that some of my newer poems are worse than some of the earlier ones. I will go with my criticism. It is kind of like the poems, every once in a while I give a helpful criticism, but most of the time it is really nothing too unique or put together. The hard part is going to be after this class, when we have to critique our own work and then fix them. When we were getting ready for our poet presentation Aziz and I looked at each others poems that were do that day, it was the one after spring break. We both did something related to the ear. I would have liked to hear some of those poems of his in the workshop more. Variety.