Tracey K Smith

Question 1

All the poems

Answer 1

Joy
The Searchers
The Universe is a House Party
The Museum of Obsolescence
The Universe as Primal Scream

Question 2

Joy

Answer 2

“Imagining yourself a girl again”
“You are nine years old, playing hospital with your sisters”
“They’ve made the room dark”
“Traffic transparent tubes”
“Chord of light”

Question 3

The Searchers

Answer 3

“Grabs her”
“The impossible wish, to forget”
“Grip it, hang on/horse”
“A beast that big could wreck us easily”
“And send us soaring/like cheap toys”
“Do we insist our lives are ours? Look at the frontier. It didnt resist. Gave anyone the chance”

Question 4

The Universe is a House Party

Answer 4

“It sounds like the party Your neighbors forget to invite you to”
“Through walls”
“We’ll welcome with indefatigable hospitality”
“How marvellous you’ve come!”
“Pinprick mouths” “nubbin limbs”
“Mi casa es su casa”
“Of course, its ours. If its anyone’s, its ours.”

Question 5

The museum of Obsolescence

Answer 5

“Watches us watch it: our faulty eyes, our/hearts”
“Theres green money, and oil in drums” “titter”
“Recounting the wars”
“A living man sits on display/he’ll describe the old beliefs”
“A mirror - someones idea of a joke?
“An image of the old planet taken from space” with “vendors”

Question 6

The Universe as Primal scream