BREAKING DOWN POETRY
Unsolved Description Argument after Argument The head eating up the war The spate of carnage escalates to a new level Which result in confrontation. Investigations after Investigations unsolved war entered the victim the head was a bodyguard in the past Over-… that past is over. when the suffered stands about injures became description. Victoria died, deceased, Murder, murder was the description. Yesterday was when the past became frightening He said Victoria suspect the head the head eating; Shot after Shot- Scene after Scene- War after War Suffered yesterday; Months in the underworld with the head Two taskforce stands to understand with some type slaying over one. The result; a massive frightening altercation Victoria and head became investigations Became the past…the result…the suffered…the victim- The unsolved description. Had Victoria understand the months the head died? Victoria understand, which Was yesterday. -VANESSA CHEN From the original prose ‘Slaying over lunchtime pizza escalates city’s gang war’ the issue of killing and death are integrated in to the poem ‘Unsolved Description’. The poem conveys a sense of futility and fragility of human existence on earth. It also focuses on the casualness and ease of taking a human life. The poem is a vehicle for transporting the idea of death – human’s physical departure from earth.