Teige+Dougherty


 * 1) Quote about poetry:**
 * Breathe-in experience, breathe out poetry.**
 * -Muriel Rukeyser**


 * 2) Memory story**
 * (Brother and sister)**

Brother and sister Come to town Better than christmas All smiles and grins They tell their stories About the world From Korea To London Almost supernatural It seems like They had seen and done everything From bus rides in China To hang gliding in Australia


 * 3) Ode to my pen**

bent and gnarled wearing away Slowly stopping but holding up you've been there the whole time, even though you are broken and destroyed.

When I need a pen I pick you not because your fancy or because your easy to use, but because you in some way resemble me. You are hurt and just hanging in there, and you keep on going no matter what.

You are just like me, strong dedicated and reliable. Some people may throw you out or put you away incase everything else fails but I use you, bring you to the front lines.

No one knows what you have seen or what you will but people think they know they think that your used "has-been" That your not good for anything anymore that you are a shadow of your former self but you know thats not true.

You are who you are but they don't see that but why would they, they only see whats on the outside. Not what is happening underneath that you are there to help when they need something


 * 4) Found Poem**

Are you chin-chilling? Bobby won't share the crayons Red this dictionary out loud. And then I saw Billy boy! That's birdification I'll Send you a virus He is thirty! He is gonna die soon. I'm not a slave! I'm gonna charge people for Call of Duty If you are mean to us, it's a hate crime.


 * 5) ****I was taught by brothers**

I was taught by knuckle dragging little kid pranking baseball playing Suey pegging older brothers

They taught me the ins and outs That nothing comes easy and that there is always gonna be someone bigger than you. that can push you down that can pick you up and throw you but its how you get up that matters

I was taught by music playing concussion giving bone breaking video game playing baby sitting older brothers

They have the control the power, over you. They blame you mess with you yell at you but it's all in good fun until someone gets hurt then it's "He did it!" and all the fingers starting pointing.

I WAS TAUGHT BY BROTHERS

"I'm nobody! Why are you? Are you a nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us - don't tell! They will banish us, you know" - Emily Dickinson Who are we then If we are truely nobody then no one will miss us when we are no more.
 * 6) A riff poem**

Colors here Colors all around Swirl twirl spin Combining together like melted crayons
 * 7) An imagist poem**