"Improv"-ing / imitation - Week 4

I chose the sample workshop poem we worked on in class.

All the hype and duffel bags dumped,
I x-ed our gear off lists with tiny crossbones
in a khaki baggage detail with twenty other Joes.
Laid out  on the hangar floor warped in summer,
a battalion's worth of socks, can openers,
rubbers, transparent bars of deodorant,
hunting magazines, photos of children on boats.
Then off to Maine, Ireland, then Germany,
and finally Kuwait, from where Chinooks
buzzed us into the heart of Mesopotamia
and our own unreal translations of glory.
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     My Imitation

All the shopping and sewing done,
Fall wardrobe packed in red American Tourister luggage,
Along with a Quarter's worth  of Ice Blue Secret Deodorant,
Tampax, Revlon Touch and Glow make-up, peppermint stick lipstick,
Brush rollers, Aqua Net Hair Spray, and a photo of my high school sweetheart.
Then off through Buena Vista, Manchester, Warm Springs, Newnan and
Finally Carrollton,  into the heart of West Georgia College.
I lugged my red suitcase up the steps into Adamson Dorm
And my own surreal journey to a college education.