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put your shoes on

March 30, 2026CC BY

every day shoes on every way shoes on why the hell don't my kids remember to put shoes on

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▾ This Poem's Voice

Deeply personal parental frustration with specific domestic detail

Multiple iterations of shoe-forgetting compressed into 6 lines; idea-dense repetition

Exasperation and mild despair dominate; frustrated parent voice

Builds through repetition; exclamation and profanity create kinetic tension

Micro-poem at 6 lines

Minimal figurative language; mostly declarative with strategic profanity

Lyric internal monologue of frustrated parent; some dramatic edge via dialogue-like address

Free Verseidentityhumorrepetition enjambment

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