Alex "Grim's Menagerie"

Grim’s Menagerie Alex, I really enjoyed this piece because of the references to pop culture—Slaughter House Rock, Sid and Nancy, etc. I also like the poetic/lyrical feel the opening of your piece—the repeating of lines and the stanza form. I like the correlation to the circus, I think that the beginning is like an introduction to all of these “circus attractions” or “circus freaks” and then you go into a description of each “character.” I stated this in class: your piece reminded me of A Clockwork Orange with the way in which you choose to describe the characters and how you mix the lyrical with the references to pop culture and the circus as well as how that somehow relates to the death of humanity. As I’m reading certain sections I feel like there’s darkness in the words—for example: “the virgin boy sold to the Devil at 9”, “Sid and Nancy. Sid killed Nancy”, or “they do not know forgiveness”—I think that you could develop more on that darkness which will also add, or build up to the ending.