On+girls+lending+pens+by+Taylor+Mali

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__On Girls Lending Pens__ By Taylor Mali

I walked into the classroom and straight to my chair, But when I reached for my pen, it just wasn’t there! I had no pen! or crayon! or pencil! I was stuck before class without a writing utensil.

I could have asked the teacher (if I had dared,) But I knew she would have said, “You’re unprepared!” So to be diplomatic and avoid the fight I quickly turned to the girl on my right,

Do you possibly have a pen I could borrow? I’ll use it today and have it back by tomorrow. “Oh! Furshur! What kind? I’ve got plenty.” And she turned around with a handful of twenty.

I really don’t care what color or style, I’ll take the fountain pen, I said with a smile. “Oh, you don’t want that one. It comes out all ugly. And it’s made of pure gold,” she said to me smugly.

Then how bout the blue? “No, that one hops.” Okay, maybe the green? “Comes out in glops.” Black? “I’m afraid it’s having trouble connecting.” Red? “I’ll need it if we do any in-class correcting.” Look, I said, my voice filling with fear, Just gimme a pen before the teacher gets here!

“But this one always comes out in tons, The yellow one skips and the purple one runs. When the brown one dries, it looks real icky, And the orange one’s covered with something sticky. This one’s for emergencies (in case I get confused) ‘cause it’s clean and it’s fresh and it’s never been used. I keep this one for quizzes ‘cause it brings good luck, And the ballpoint’s splotchy and the cap is stuck. This one’s empty, with the silver band, And the felt-tip will leak all over your hand. This one’s cracked, and that’s gone berserk! And that would be perfect but it doesn’t work. But here! Take this one! This one’s fine! Oh wait…I’m sorry, this one’s mine.” I think she went on but I couldn’t have cared. I decided it was better to go unprepared.

**The poem “On girls lending pens” by Taylor Mali is a very humorous poem. It doesn’t have many poetic devices but one that I found was rhythm and rhyme. The whole poem was rhythm and rhyme. It was very good because everything flowed. An example of one of his rhymes was “Do you possibly have a pen I can borrow? I’ll use it today and have It back by tomorrow.” **
 * He also used a lot of colour, description and exaggeration in this poem. The exaggeration in the poem was when the boy asked for a pen and the girl said sure and brought out twenty. But all of them had a problem or a reason for it not to be used . He also used imagery in this poem. From all the description and colour, it really helped set a picture in my head. He described each pen in a different way like“This one’s empty, with the silver band, And the felt-tip will leak all over your hand.” **

**Well crafted response. **    **30/36**
 * There are two themes in the poem. The first is to always come prepared and the second is to never ask a girl for a pen. Usually girls come overly prepared and have too many pens to pick from. In the poem it seems like girls make the most simplest things seem more difficult to deal with. At the end, the boy in the poem decides that he rather come unprepared than ask a girl for a pen because he doesn’t want to deal with that again. I picked this poem because it was simple and funny and I like rhyming poems. Taylor Mali used this real life joke in his poem to make it more humorous and even though it might be a little sexest to girls, it’s still very funny. I enjoyed this poem very much. **