This poem is based off Wallace Steven's Poem, "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," in which he describes a blackbird in thirteen different ways. This poem follows that concept, but instead follows the escapades of a single piece of rope.

13 Ways Of Looking At Rope

I. Among the aisles of Home Depot

Lies the still threads

Of a singular piece of rope

II. The rope waits patiently

Silent as the light breeze

Excited to be chosen

III. You pull the rope

Attached to the curtain

As you open a new setting 

For the stage

IV. Ropes gather together

joining together to make one rope

V. The rope has been

around longer than written history

VI. A rope necklace drapes around his neck

He is flying above the crowd

Like a cloud of menacing terror

VII. How do you expect me 

To talk to you 

With a rope constricting my throat

VIII. The rope hitting the ground

In circular rhythm.

Children jump to reveal happy lives 

IX. The ropes braided chords

Spiral around each other

Like a double helix, they cling

To each other

X.All together 

The strength of many

Used to pull the Trojan horse

XI. Rapunzel's long hair is used

To climb up into her tower

Kind of like the rope

Everyone has to climb in gym class

XII. Careful of hangman's rope

It'll use you to heal itself

While it drains your life

XIII. Aisle after aisle,

Row after row,

Until the one section

Where the little rope lay