Psalm 150 By Jericho Brown

The poem that I chose to be too hard is titled “Psalm 150” by Jericho Brown. I chose this as my hardest poem because I simply could not grasp where the author was going with it. From the title, the author seems to be referring to a Bible verse. I don’t know much about the Bible, which is probably why I couldn’t make much sense of it. The poem begins with “Some folks fool themselves into believing, But I know what I know once at the height of hopeless touching”. The wordplay that is used by the author seems to go in circles, leaving me more and more confused with each line. The author does this again when he states, “ Eliminate it from our lives, which are shorter since we learned to make love for each other rather than doing it to each other.”