To Mock A Mockingbird

Some love it others don't. so here we go...it turned into a poem

A mockingbird, a mockingbird

The worst metaphor that I ever heard

And moral lessons that are quite grating

A narrator's tone I find irritating

Some false emotions from a bland book

290 pages at which to look

But look at what? The dull brick scene

with character descriptions thrown in between

Descritption is vital as characters blur

So to identify I flick back and refer

to the pages I already endured

and by random words obscured

No matter- I'll focus on the case

An unfair charge for a matter of race

So here it is, the second half

might give me some tears, I hope not a laugh

A court case quite short and the verdict unfair

But it's 200 pages in and I really don't care.

 

So here we are, the final page

Of a book which wound me into a rage

Maybe here she's pulled the big guns

But no. What a waste of my time.

 

Reviews

[Michelle]

I found this to be an interesting synopsis of a classic. I was into it, until the last line.

"Maybe here she's pulled the big guns
But no. What a waste of my time."

I was just getting into the rhythm of the rhyme!

BTW: I loved to kill a mockingbird, and read it many times as a child.