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Stress
Stress
Stress built up over school and family
Stress built up by myself and my friends
Stress
Jokes
Jokes thought out and blurted out by me
Jokes laughed at by my peers through the stress
Jokes
Laughter
Laughter from myself
Laughter from others
Laughter
Ease
Ease brought on by me to my friends
Ease brought on to my by my friends
Ease
Worry
Worry eased away by jokes and laughter
Worry flushed away like a toilet
Worry
Stress
What stress?

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My favorite part of this piece is how you can view it two different ways; you can read the words and not think about it in depth, or you can read between the lines and infer things about myself as the main character while reading, which is something that not everybody can do. One potential weakness in my poem could be the repetitiveness of the words, which a lot of readers could find boring, however, I believe that it fits the poem and gives the average reader a better idea of how I am as a person when I’m surrounded by stress. I hope readers will learn what some of my traits are (as stated by others) without me indirectly saying it. I’ve learned that I can use indirect characterization in pieces as basic as a poem and now I know that I can do that in a bigger piece as well.