“Love Song”
By Samuel Hoffenstein
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Your little hands,
Your little feet,
Your little mouth —
Oh, God, how sweet!
Your little nose,
Your little ears,
Your eyes, that shed
Such little tears!
Your little voice,
So soft and kind;
Your litle soul,
Your litle mind!
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More Thon Rhyme: Posy Funda B“Throw Away”
By Unknown
The women in my aporiment building
‘Ate so pretentious.
Refuse must be sorted they soy
‘Wash the recyclables
Stack the newspoper
Separate the plastics.
Sometimes it's easier
Just to toke myself offto the neighboring towa
There's o trailer park there
With on unlocked dumpster
The girls wear short shorts
‘And fry litle tanks
‘And want to talk to me about things other then
What's in my bog,
Yeah, there con be joy in
Toking out the trash,
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“Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard”
By Kay Ryan
Alife should leave
deep tracks:
ruts where she
wen! out and back
to get the moil
cor move the hose
‘round the yard:
where she used fo
stand before the sink,
«a worn out place;
beneath her hand,
the chino knobs
rubbed down to
shite pastes
the switch she
used fo feel for
inthe dork
colmost erased.
Her things should
keep her marks
The passage
of elite should show;
it should cbrade.
‘And when if stops,
@.ceriain space
~ however small —
should be left scorred
by the grond and
damaging parade.
‘Things shouldn't
be so hard
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Samples of Double Denotation
The tng is wor on my finger He waves me on.
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