Week 16 Reading Notes: Part B - "Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?"

I found this poem so intriguing that I had to research if it was written in honor of David Bowie passing, however, I found it was actually written nearly 5 years before he passed. 

The third stanza / verse personified David Bowie as an average person, same as you or me:

"Bowie is among us. Right here

In New York City. In a baseball cap

And expensive jeans. Ducking into

A deli. Flashing all those teeth

At the doorman on his way back up.

Or he’s hailing a taxi on Lafayette

As the sky clouds over at dusk.

He’s in no rush. Doesn’t feel

The way you’d think he feels.

Doesn’t strut or gloat. Tells jokes."

I have now spent almost an hour reading about David Bowie! I unintentionally made a full Wikipedia trail, haha!


Works Cited

Smith, Tracy K. “Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? by Tracy K. Smith.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55520/dont-you-wonder-sometimes.