Original poem reprinted online here: "Two Plays" by Lloyd Schwartz Originally read: November 30, 2012 (I don't know) More information about the Poet: Lloyd Schwartz I want to focus on the last comment I wrote which was: The ending is clever -- it's one of those expected endings. I guess that's why I am dissapointed [sic] a bit. The narrator foreshadows the poem pitch perfect, yet after the second or third read the foreshadowing doesn't keep me interested. Besides the atrocious spelling and grammar errors, I wonder why I thought the way I did when I read it. So I reread the poem again and the problem for me consisted of two things. 1) Part I was heavy on the exposition. Exposition is not a bad thing. Of course I want background on things in writing and in real life. Example: "Hey did you hear that <insert person here> is in jail for life?" "Oh really, what happened" "Well <insert exposition here about like traffic tick...
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