Review of "The First Day" by Edward Jones, and "Cooling The House" by Mark Liedner

In the first reading “The First day” by Edward P Jones, I thought it was a really good story, and he did an excellent job of taking the point of view of the little girl. He had her react exactly how I would expect a little girl of that age to act. It was a very easy read, and held my attention well. In the other piece, the poem “Cooling The House” by Mark Liedner, I couldn’t really get into it. I think it was because it was audio, and had a picture of the author. I had a hard time getting into it as a poem because I see poetry as a complex and creative manner of telling a story. I saw Liedner as a stoner, and he sounded like he was stoned while reading the story, and to me it sounded like a half witted rant secondary to being high, and bored.