Poetry Out Loud and Me

The poem that I have chosen to memorize is Fairy-Tale Logic by A.E. Stallings. This first caught my eye with the title, I may be nearly 17 years old but I love fairy tales. They almost always have a happy ending, and frankly what girl doesn't like fairy tales. I love that this poem is mildly poking fun at all the tests and trials that people in fairy tales are willing to endure. They do some pretty crazy things. They cross sulphuric lakes in leaky boats, princes slay dragons, there is
always some sort of wild test that probably wouldn't happen in the real world.
I think that to perform this poem I will have to do little girly things, like spirit fingers when it refers to magic, and I really have to try not to play with my hair (its a nervous habit). Seeing as I already have a fairly girly voice I won't have to work very hard to get the fairy tale point across. My face will look happy, which it already nearly always does anyway. I don't feel like I will have to work very hard to convey the meaning of the poem, its pretty straight forward.
I think that after hearing this poem people will probably look at fairy tales in a whole new light. They will understand the references in the poem, like "the language of snakes, perhaps, an invisible cloak". People will recognise that as a Harry Potter reference and will probably laugh whether they like that series or not. It will be easy for people to connect to and they will probably get a good laugh out of it, I know I did.