Patty’s Charcoal Drive-in

This is a poem we read this week. To me, it sounds like a middle aged woman reflecting a summer job she had as a teenager. She worked in a diner drive-in, the way she described it (such as “bouncing pony tail”) shows that she enjoyed that job. However, she had some concerns at the same time.

One of the lines from the poem stood out to me. It says “ A breeze comes up, chasing papers in the far corners of the darkened lot, as if suddenly cold wind had stated to blow straight at me from the future.” It is like the situation most of us in right now. We are all working on our college application, going to school, doing our volunteership and spending time on our jobs. It seems that we all have a lot of things to work on, but the future is still undefined. I was always asked what would I want to do in the future. But I can never give a specific answer. The answer has always been changing as I grow up. Even though I can’t picture what the future will be like, I believe that the future is in our own hands. We should enjoy our time and take all the opportunities we are given. The more we learn, the more we explore, we will have a clearer image of what we want to do with our lives.

I think this is a good poem. And for those who haven’t read it, I hope you’ll take a look at it. It is pretty straight forward and it’s worth reading.