I decided to do my found poem based on lyrics from M and M’s song “Mockingbird” because there always seemed to be an eerie tone to the song that I wasn’t the biggest fan of. For me I wanted to show the parts that were most disturbing to me like the breaking of the mockingbird’s neck and the part about the mom being gone for only the moment. I personally don’t feel like I used the space in the poem for any specific reason when I originally did this but now the space on the page could represent how he feels separated from his daughter and her cousin.
I didn’t feel anything while putting the poem together but now that I am writing this it makes me feel emotional. My dad who passed away last year fought and lost a battle with a disease that slowly made him feel separated from society and even his family for close to 10 years. Even though it doesn’t seem like M and M doesn’t seem to deal with this disease my dad did I can see similarities in their situations.
