The poem Succulent on page 15 is one of my favorites yet also one I hated the most. Most people, including me, hate things that bring up the past. Even though the beauty in the poem is being able to bring emotions forth and have the reader and author connect on an emotional level. This fact is blindsided by the feeling of pain and despair in my memories that resurface from this poem.  

The ending stanza where it is said “it is easier to get another one, comes the new voice from the other room” is what left an impact on me the most. This impacted me the most since recently I just broke up with my girlfriend a couple days ago. When something doesn’t work out or feelings start to fade away it’s hard for me to try and fix things to get them back. It is easier to get a new girlfriend, one where it is a fresh start and there are no fights to make up for. The old girlfriend like the succulent flower is wilting away, dying, since you aren't giving any thoughts to it or attention. Eventually it just becomes a part of the Earth, just another dead flower. The people that struggle with this also struggle with themselves. They want to ignore the fact that it is there fault. Unlike me I know this is my fault yet there is always that voice saying, “it is easier to get another one”. 

The poem Beginning, Middle, and End changes every timeline ever existed. You can pick any timeline and find the beginning, middle, and end. Then by putting them in different orders you can get a new and different meaning each time. This creates an exciting perplexity of questions to be answered or thought about. It’s not a puzzle anymore that when you put the beginning, middle, and end together in the right order you get an answer. Each separate one is a story itself, not bits and pieces like a puzzle.  

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