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

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Could make a small boy dizzy;

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But I hung on like death:

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Such waltzing was not easy.

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We romped until the pans

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Slid from the kitchen shelf;

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My mother's countenance

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Could not unfrown itself.

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parentheses around the face.

The hand that held my wrist

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on his wrist.

Was battered on one knuckle;

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At every step you missed

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My right ear scraped a buckle.

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You beat time on my head

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classroom clock

With a palm caked hard by dirt,

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fingerprints

Then waltzed me off to bed

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walking

Still clinging to your shirt.

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loving.

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