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Analyzing Alzheimer's Poem 'Say Cheese'

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Reading your poem, “Say Cheese”, brought up a lot of questions. For instance, who died? Was it the grandmother or the grandfather? You say in the first stanza that the grandmother is bent over, holding the hand of a memory. But then in your last stanza, you say “Mommy told me to love Grandpa while he still knew me”. So, did the grandfather die, and the mother knew it, so she warned the child to love and be with him while he was alive or is she using the grandmother's death as a lesson to stay close to the grandfather? If not for the stanza with the funeral, I would have thought perhaps the grandfather had Alzheimer’s because of the line “while he still knew me”. And why did you bring in the angel of death? What did she have to do with the poem?

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