DDCPoetry

Poem found here:  "DetoNation" by Ocean Vuong The poem starts off with a linguistic pun -- detonation as the explosion, and the focus on "Deto" and then "Nation."  Could this be a overly political poem?  A poem that's too on the nose? It seems to start that way, but the shift of subject is set up with the first couplet, "There's a joke that ends with-- huh?  / It's the bomb saying here is your father" a joke told with the punchline first, and the punchline is a "bomb" saying "here is your father."  So the question is what is the focus: the bomb or the saying? The poem has a sense of repetition throughout, but starts with the saying as though to emphasize what has happened, "Now here is your father inside / your longs.  Look how lighter / the earth is -- afterward."  Yes, the focus on "afterward" might overly state the regret in the line, but the poem is transitioning and coming back to this over...