I drove to Oak Park, took two tours,
And looked at some of the houses.
I took the long way back along the lake.
The place that I came home to—a cavernous
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Please, please, somebody, teach the lady who read the poem how to read! Not how to read poetry, how to read. Period. Teach her what a sentence is and how you do NOT stop in the middle of it, thereby distorting the rhythm/meaning, when the text is telling you to do otherwise. Teach her about the natural phrasing and linking of words. A new pair of ears for the lady would do, as a starter. GRRHHH! Such a reading does a great disservice to an interesting poem.
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Please, please, somebody, teach the lady who read the poem how to read! Not how to read poetry, how to read. Period. Teach her what a sentence is and how you do NOT stop in the middle of it, thereby distorting the rhythm/meaning, when the text is telling you to do otherwise. Teach her about the natural phrasing and linking of words. A new pair of ears for the lady would do, as a starter. GRRHHH! Such a reading does a great disservice to an interesting poem.