"Each time I go outside" by Ted Kooser

Although this poem is short, it has a lot of meaning to it. The speaker is trying to exemplify the idea of daily life being routine. The twist to this concept is that even though life is routine, each day is a different day. Life for the speaker is obviously predictable until 5:30. Work all day and at 5:30, the person goes on and do whatever it is they want to do for the remainder of the day. "What I would do for wisdom, I cried out as a young man. Evidently not much." This piece from the exert sounds like a cry for help, a cry for hope more so. "Even on walks I follow the dog," sounds as if the person just gave up and goes with the flow. In other words, whatever happens just happens. The last sentence sounds the same. Lets just be who we are living an ordinary simple life.

"Launa Turner has collasped" by Frank O' Hara

Frank O' Hara, I believe was trying to tell the poem from a first and third person's point of view. Before I actually get into the perspectives, I think the poem is generally and simply about a young girl who's experiencing an episode of a "bad night out." Possibly Launa couldn't quite remember everything that happened on her way home from the party. As the story is being told, she's only telling what she recollects. For example, Launa says "LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California." In other words, she realized that she was most likely hallucinating on what happened on the way home and eventually came to the realization that it's not normal for it to snow or rain in Hollywood, California. The term "collapsed" is defined, to fall or to fall unconscious. Clearly, Launa passed out from no doubt being drunk. The reason I mention party is because O'Hara writes, "I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful." This is all new to Launa because she says "but i never actually collapsed." I'm assuming that she has gotten drunk before but have never experienced passing out or forgetting things that happened and seeing mirages. Mirages because she said she saw the rain and snow but then contradicted herself and said that there is no rain or snow in Hollywood.