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For our second assignment, I found that having such an free choice on what to write was both a good thing and a bad thing for me. The unlimited range on what we could write was a challenge for me because there's so much that ran through my mind and it was difficult to choose, but at the same time, it allowed to pick something that I love and could easily write about. Music and basketball are what I breathe eat and sleep, so I chose those as topics. I also chose to do a shorter poem on time and try a different, more metaphorical approach. Because hip-hop is such a big influence in my writing, I always find myself rhyming and using word play with ebonics and obscure references. Rappers like Brother Ali, Rakim, Supastition, Talib Kweli and many other artists always influence what I speak or write about and how I view things because I grew up on their music and my paradigm of life reflects their lyrics. With the basketball poem, I just tried to capture what it would be like for a child prodigy to have these great expectations to live up to, and knowing that there is a bright future ahead of you but so many possible roadblocks on the way. With the time poem, it was kind of scattered and I didn't really have a main idea I wanted to establish, so it does seem kind of random. But I think will all of the feedback I get from both Professors and students alike, I can edit it and bring out what I really want to say. The feedback I got from the first assignment was on point. I understood everything that was said, both positive and negative, and I can already tell that the feedback is going to continue to make my writing better.