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 Today we answered questions about the poem “ Constantly Risking Absurdity”. The questions were a little challenging with explaining the answers but still easy at the same time. I personally like this poem a lot because it expresses poets in a real life way. The comparison of an acrobat to a poet really expresses the creative work they have to put into their writings. My day is good so far.

 Today we read another poem from Lawerence Ferlinghetti, called “Constantly Risking Absurdity”. This poem compares a poet to an acrobat. The way he conveyed this message was through literary devices, word play, and creativity. I liked in the poem when he says “ where Beauty stands and waits with gravity”. I think this meant that standards of certain things are everlasting debates because everyone has their own opinion of when you reach a point fully. 

 In class everyone else who didn’t present got to present their poems today. The poems had very valuable meanings behind them and provided great themes. I wrote down three things I learned for each one and made a connection with them. It was kinda hard coming up with connections that relate to myself but I tried to relate it the best I could. We then turnt our papers in at the end of class.

 Today I presented my poem in class with my group. We summarized the poem and told our two themes to the class. I also presented my individual assignment as the summarizer. I took notes after on the poems “ The Road Not Taken” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. Made connections with each poem as well.

 When I was younger I would hang out with my cousins at their houses and my grandma’s house. All my cousins are mostly older than me so they remember better than me those memories when we would play together. They always tell me about those times now and I never can remember much. One time my cousin said we were all at her house and decided to walk around and her mother’s heels and put on makeup and act like we were walking down a runway. She also showed me pictures and I still didn’t remember the makeup part, only us walking around in heels and falling everywhere.

 A time I knew I was in trouble was during my last track meet in 8th grade. After my meet I had got into an incident with another student from a different school while my mom was on the same field with me. In the end of it I ended up going back and forth with a few people and had to leave. I could tell my mom was very disappointed in me when we got in the car because she kept asking me questions about what happened and why we were arguing.  When we got home she made me put my phone up and I could only get it back during the school week. I was scared in the car she was going to do more but she wasn’t as mad as I thought, just disappointed in my behavior.

 I feel that I have too much skincare products in my home. Almost every time I go to a store like target or ulta I find a new skincare product that I “need”. Usually the products don’t work for me or I just stop using them because I start to think it isn’t doing anything. It is almost like an addiction for me that I continue to influence. My mom always tells me to stop and actually research the product to see if it’s for my skin type but I say I rather get all the products and test it out myself. For right now I think I will take a break from buying so many products at once.