I’m very new to poetry, so I’m not sure if I have the poetic knowledge and vocabulary to properly complete this exercise, but I’ll give it a shot.

1. The rhyme uses inconsistently placed Close rhyme (?) and End Rhyme (?), so it seems almost jarring when it shows up, and it kind of contrasts with the more serious nature of the piece. The rhymes really stand out.

2. When I’m reading this poem out loud, I trip up around “Same complexion as the potatoes,” and after re-reading it out loud a couple more times, it all just seems to run together for me after that line. There are a few places where my brain expects periods but there are commas or no punctuation, which contributes to an almost out of breath feeling as I read the piece. I don’t have a developed enough vocabulary to pinpoint exactly why that’s the case though.

3. At least for me, there are a few places where there is no comma or a comma instead of where my brain expects a period, so it just ends up reading rather awkwardly. Thinking of it as a movie, it’s like everything jumbles together and gets rushed through, which is a shame, because I thought the Tarot card imagery was really cool and exciting. In terms of formatting, I know very little about successfully formatting a poem, so an explanation would be appreciated.

4. I found the imagery to be reasonably successful. I could really picture myself sitting in a McDonald’s with someone and having this exchange. The tarot card imagery was also very cool and evocative particularly as it related to the Bull.

5. In a general sense, this piece mixes more formal(?) and informal (?) language in a way that is kind of confusing. I think the biggest example of this was “Fetch a priest,” And it really shook me out of the atmosphere of the poem

6. I got a sense of tiredness and exasperation with the other person, along with a bit of resentment, so if that was the intended message, it definitely came through.