Things I learned Last Year(:

Anyone can run for president,

even Donald Trump.

 

Coloring for 20 minutes before bed

can relieve stress.

 

A movie director, somewhere in the US,

can make thousands of dollars

off of a horror movie about

a trip to your grandparents house.

 

It's true, Miley Cyrus

could in fact get crazier.

 

Insomnia certainly

does not suit me

 

It is possible for

the person you thought of as

your best friend

to drift apart from you

 

Nobody can say Hello,

What do you mean or Sorry

without singing the song.

 

 

While I was writing this I related it to William Stafford's version as closely as I could. I followed the same 2,2,4,2,2,4,3 pattern and also tried to make the subject matters the same in each stanza. In my poem, the first stanza is not an intriguing nature fact like Stafford's is. Instead, I chose to have it as something with a sarcastic tone. For the second stanza, just like Stafford's version, I made this a life fact/life hack. As for stanza 3 and stanza 7, I made these have a more sarcastic tone just like in Stafford's version. William Stafford makes references to famous people and also random people so, in my own poem, I did the same in the correlated stanza. Overall, this poem has a more sarcastic tone but the content varies and could be considered as a very random piece of writing.