I like this very much, especially its irresistible child-like energy and momentum. Though I tend to be a traditionalist, I find the looseness of rhyme, meter, and grammar appropriate for this subject.
Like a couple of others, I briefly thought this was going to be about gender identification—and maybe a few lines need to be tweaked to steer the reader’s attention away from that issue, which I don’t think is the main focus of the poem.
In addition, I think that the last two lines need some revising, for clarity’s sake. I’m pretty sure I understand the significance of the watch and the list, but I was distracted by puzzling out the chronology.
A fun, thought-provoking start for the bakeoff!
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