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Kyshawn Williams
Mr. Griffin
Tech Prep 12
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18 November 2014
"My Papa's Waltz"
by Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath

Commented [KW1]: This word makes me think of a bar.

Could make a small boy dizzy;

Commented [KW2]: This word makes me think of people

smoking cigarettes.

But I hung on like death:

Such waltzing was not easy.

Commented [KW3]: This word makes me think of the tea cup

ride.
Commented [KW4]: This word makes me think of black.
Commented [KW5]: This word makes me think of the movie
Twighlight.

We romped until the pans

Slid from the kitchen shelf;

Commented [KW6]: This word makes me think of food.

My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist

Commented [KW7]: This word makes me think of tattoos.

Was battered on one knuckle;

Commented [KW8]: This word makes me think of cake batter.

Commented [KW9]: This word makes me think of fighting.

At every step you missed

Commented [KW10]: This word makes me think of central

islip.

My right ear scraped a buckle.

Commented [KW11]: This word makes me think of my mom.

Commented [KW12]: This word makes me think of trash.

You beat time on my head

With a palm caked hard by dirt,

Commented [KW13]: This word make me think of a bel.

Commented [KW14]: This word makes me think of music.
Commented [KW15]: This word makes me of dirt cups.

Then waltzed me off to bed

Still clinging to your shirt.

Commented [KW16]: This word makes me think of my

brother.

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