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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Importance of Rheem

This poem plays so much with sound It's got that alliteration not just there but in lots of other places. Repeatedly the children take off their doctor and lawyer disguises and turn back into little lambs That's a funny another sense of humor is showing there But also a sense of I don't know that the kids are more or less than what they claim to be.

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