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Sam Pull
Mr. Griffin
Tech Prep 12
6 December 2011
"My Papa's Waltz"
by Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath

Commented [a1]: This word makes me think about old men

drinking.

Could make a small boy dizzy;

Commented [a2]: This word makes me think about spinning.

But I hung on like death:

Commented [JG3]: This word makes me think about sleeping.

Such waltzing was not easy.

Commented [JG4]: This word makes me think about dancing or

walking.

We romped until the pans

Commented [JG5]: This word makes me think of playing

around.

Slid from the kitchen shelf;

Commented [JG6]: This word makes me think about falling.

My mother's countenance

Commented [JG7]: This word makes me think of a face.

Could not unfrown itself.

Commented [JG8]: This word makes me think about sadness.

The hand that held my wrist

Commented [JG9]: This word makes me think of grabbing.

Was battered on one knuckle;

Commented [JG10]: This word makes me think of an injury.

At every step you missed

Commented [JG11]: This word makes me think of a foot.

My right ear scraped a buckle.

Commented [JG12]: This word makes me think of a scratch.

You beat time on my head

Commented [JG13]: This word makes me think of hitting.

With a palm caked hard by dirt,

Commented [JG14]: This word makes me think of a hand.

Then waltzed me off to bed

Commented [JG15]: This word makes me think of dancing.

Still clinging to your shirt.

Commented [JG16]: This word makes me think of something

being together.

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