One thing that I have always done to help me get into writing a piece is write whatever I have in my head at the time. When writing this piece, I had the Walrus and the Carpenter song from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland stuck in my head, as well as Kings of Leon’s Pony Up. The beginning is me working through the Alice song and getting into the Kings song, helping me to the memory that became the rest of this poem. The memory is something that I haven’t been able to truly express with other people, and something that I think of often when I think back to being in high school, so it’s fitting that it would become a piece of writing. I kept the lines short and choppy after I typed it up because that’s how I wrote it in my notebook, but I think I wrote the lines to be this way as well. There are definite lines that I separated from the bulk of the poem for effect, like the last line in stanza four, or the last line in stanza six. I interject with song lyrics again close to the end of the piece to bring it back to how the piece started. And since the piece was a ten minute free write, where I couldn’t stop writing for the full time and so it’s more of stream of consciousness than a planned attempt, the end is very much my own frustration trying to remember the last line of the piece. I do think it works very well though, and I’m happy with how it turned out! Overall, I like using song lyrics to help me drive this piece, and with the added pressure of the time constraint, this could be a great way to motivate (or force) students who have trouble starting a piece.