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this is one contemporary poem that i definitely enjoyed! this poem is full with an interesting plot, understandable surface reading, humor, and wit. i love the little detalils that daniels mentions: waiting to start cooking until the "average joe" pays for his thirty burgers and thirty fries. i never would imagine that a man making the burgers at a pay- berfore-you-eate- restaurant would enjoy his job enough to care about the process of making the burgures and fries.. maybe this short order cook doesn't care either-- he just has the process down so well that he recites how he is making the order. the touch of the girls at the counter laughing is a great one. either the girls are laughing at the short-order cook because he cares so much about his work, or the point is to show the completely separate world that the girls are in from him. either way, they are a great touch. i like the ending in which the short- order cook sums up what he just accomplished, "Pressure, responsibility, success." he was able to make ALL 30 CHEESEZBURGERS! and 30 fries too! i love poems that paint a picture of a facet of life as the poem does. oh! one other touch that i particularly enjoyed was the line, "It is a crucial point... my fingers shake as I tear off the cheese" what a great sequence that gets the reader into the mind of a stressed out short-order cook!
Posted by Beth Williams on 2/23/04; 6:34:04 PM
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