Blog 4

I really loved Brittany Clark's poem, "A Little Numb." The poem goes chronologically through a World Trade Center worker's day on September 11. It starts out early in the morning with this man sipping on coffee and getting things ready for the day. It moves on to him going to a meeting that was interrupted by a loud "boom." Although he wasn't aware if this was some type of earthquake or not, everyone evacuated the building. As everyone was exiting down the stairs, Brittany posted the time moving forward.

I really liked how Brittany wrote this because it gives you a great concept on how fast everything happened. At 8:44, Brittany says the businessmen were all evacuated, and at 3 they are in a different city, and the buildings they were just standing in were collapsed forever. Brittany does an excellent job adding in fine details, as well. Brittany states "lines of fire fighters fully outfitted extra equipment...walk with purpose (keep moving)." In just a few words Brittany gives the reader a great image of what is happening with this evacuation.

The poem's ending gets very graphic when Brittany writes that the man seeing a large puddle of "something," which was blood. The blood was near a human head that was detached from it's lost body. Brittany says that the man saw the head "squashed on impact." This story she retrieved this from is really amazing. As I read this poem, I was waiting for this man to be killed, but he makes it out alive. It makes you wonder, however, if he wished he hadn't after the scarring experience. Brittany's poem is really awesome, she did a great job!