"Arson" and "Rewinding an Overdose on a Projector" (260):

"Arson" (72):

• Are the line breaks what make this a poem? If it were written in prose (w/out line breaks) would it cease to be poetry?
• Who is the "we" in line 9?

- The line breaks in Arson I believe make it a poem and without them it wouldn't be a poem. The breaks provide a separation between the senerios of the fire spreading and the clothes. If the lines were not separated I would have believed it was the opening to a shot story or a book. since it is a pome it tells a simple statement of a situation and the feelings it embarks.

The we in line 9 is referring to the reader an the division of people how one side is open and curious, drugs signify something new and the unknown which can be scary. while the other line is a ex soldier who is angry at god this could be a straight forward way of thinking that's not open to new ideas.

"Rewinding an Overdose on a Projector" (260):

• What work does the title do for the poem? 
• How do you read the title in conjunction w/ the last 5 lines?
• In those last five lines, who is the narrator? What is the "I" doing in this final scene and what is his relation to the "boy on the floor"? 

- the work the title does for the poem is to guide the reader since the poem can be confusing giving a hint that the story is written backwards of a herion overdose. I read the title with the last five lines as the begging of the boy entering the room about to do something that ends in darkness and by the end of the poem you can connect everyone together. In the last lines the " I 

" Is referring to the boy himself then he turns the tape on and rewinds it watching a heroine overdoes.