Help Me Write A Poetry Response For this Poem?

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New York City -1935 by Gregory Corso

I was 5 years old
It was New York December
Horses pulling wagons
On ice pavements
As always the obvious horror.
A truck-crash-boom
The horse-blood
sopping in the snow
making red ice
I cried
My wet eyes seeing a silent
twitching horse
And it's driver
heaad bowed
walking slowly
like the sad Italian peasant
he was-
 
Okay, well this poem seems to have hard hitting details, written in a staccato form. It seems like Corso likes to write the RAW facts and details. He describes the setting, and then the event hits him, and he realizes what has happened. Maybe you could try writing of a past horrifying and/or sad experience. For example, you might write about a loved ones funeral as a child:

"It was 15 years ago
I was oblivious
Clutching my mother's arm
People walking
in the chapel
Sobs, tears and reflection
The sweet blossoms
lined the melancholy coffin..."

Yeah, I just made that poem up in like, 30 seconds, haha. But anyway, notice how Corso never forgets the fact that this event happened as a very young child a very long time ago, so therefore, he only remembers certain 'stand out' details. I really hope this helps!
 
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