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Question: What is the easiest poem to understand of Sandra Cisneros!?
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This is my father!.
See!? He is young!.
He looks like Errol Flynn!.
He is wearing a hat
that tips over one eye,
a suit that fits him good,
and baggy pants!.
He is also wearing
those awful shoes,
the two-toned ones
my mother hates!.

Here is my mother!.
She is not crying!.
She cannot look into the lens
because the sun is bright!.
The woman,
the one my father knows,
is not here!.
She does not come till later!.

My mother will get very mad!.
Her face will turn red
and she will throw one shoe!.
My father will say nothing!.
After a while everyone
will forget it!.
Years and years will pass!.
My mother will stop mentioning it!.

This is me she is carrying!.
I am a baby!.
She does not know
I will turn out bad!.

by Sandra Cisneros

She writes of the "ugly" side of life and this poem is no exception!. It is pretty straight forward, so you shouldn't have too much trouble understanding it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com