So when we read The Great Gatsby in English Class this year, one of our assignments was to write a Found Poem. In case you don't know what that is, it's a poem (obviously) that you write using lines from the book- and only that. You can modify them slightly, but only so it makes sense. I got full points on it, so I hope you like it. By the way, if you haven't finished the book, you don't want to read this- I'm talking MAJOR spoilers.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Great Gatsby or the characters mentioned, nor do I own the lines (for the most part). I only own the structure and the idea. There, now F. Scott Fitzgerald can't sue me from the grave
Death of a Hero
George Wilson rocked himself back and forth.
He knew that he had lost the freshest and the best, forever.
"He killed her," said Wilson.
"She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn't stop.
He murdered her. The man in that yellow car."
He said he had a way of finding out who the yellow car belonged to.
He spent time going from garage to garage inquiring for a yellow car.
By half past two he knew Gatsby's name.
Gatsby had given instructions that the car wasn't to be taken out-
This was strange because the right front fender needed repair.
Gatsby started for the pool.
He looked up at an unfamiliar sky and shivered as he found
That ashen fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
The chauffeur heard the shots but hadn't thought much about them.
The four of us hurried down to the pool.
A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface
Was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden.
The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved the mattress slowly,
Tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water.
Only after we started with Gatsby toward the house
Did the gardener see Wilson's body a little way off in the grass.
The holocaust was complete
I had shouted, "You're worth the whole bunch put together."
It was the only compliment I ever gave him.
We knew that we had lost the freshest and the best, forever.
I hoped you liked it! Please review. Constructive criticism is okay, but please, no flames