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  This is a poetry read of a Shel Silverstein poem, entitled “The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt” and I read it for the “Poetry Reading” audio assignment. I like this poem because it reminds me of how homophonic the English language is, which just makes it all the more confusing. (From a Linguistic point of view, English is a baffling language.) I see it as a story in an abstract sense. I see the cyclical nature of the poem, and relate that to the cycle of life, which to me is always a story–the poem begins and ends with a ...

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