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1. Read the poem.
2. Think about the title. Make some notes about what comes to mind when you read the title.
3. Make a note of any words you do not know and look them up.
4. Make some notes on the poem. What is going on in the poem? What do you notice? How does it make you feel?
5. Download this document so that you can edit it.
6. Cut it up! In the downloaded document, choose where you think the lines should break and/or enjamb by turning the wall of text into lines. Remember, a line break is where the line ends. If the line does not end with a period, question mark, or exclamation point, the line is enjambed.
7. The goal here is NOT to get it "right" and match the poet's choices. Make decisions based on how YOU would choose to cut this poem up.
8. If you get stuck, use the title as a guide to inform your choices.
Homeland Security
BY GEOFFREY BROCK
The four am cries of my son worm through the double foam of earplugs and diazepam. The smoke alarm's green eye glows. Beneath the cries, the squirm and bristle of the night's catch of fiddlebacks on the glue-traps guarding our bed. Necrotic music. Scored in my head. And all night
columns of ants have tramped through the ruins of my sleep, bearing the fipronil I left for them home to their queen. Patriot ants. Out of republics endlessly perishing. If I can hold out long enough, maybe my wife will go. If she waits long enough, maybe he'll go back down on his
own.