Frogs, Scarecrows, and Poems, Oh My!

I thought it might be cool to have students do a sort of pastiche of the Jericho Brown poem in the previous post, so I thought I'd try it out. The poem needs work, but I just wanted to make sure it would be a worthwhile assignment. I thought it was fun!

Letter to Dorothy from Oz

With the click of sequined feet
you left me in the lurch,
my intellect a trinket
around a neck of straw.
Theorems are no good for keeping away the crows.

Yes, I'm still in the cornfields.
Are you surprised? Did you really think
a man of hay could hold much sway
in solid emerald towers?

Oh, if I only had a body,
why didn't I wish for that?
Dorothy, a brain is invisible to men
who glance first at my hat's frayed brim
and the straw poking through my sleeves.

But enough about me. How's Kansas?
I hope you're happy there, with Auntie Em,
though it sounded sort of bleak to me.
But it's what you wished for, right? You can't

take it back. Your friend, the Scarecrow.