Stethoscope and Four short essays

I think Stethoscope is seven short poems, although they all play into each other, and have the same type of feeling to them. I think these poems were a little bit about growing up/ getting older. They can be read together because they are all a little bit similar and these makes the connection between them all. I think they speak to each other because they all have a feeling of sadness or like they are trying to find something that isnt there. I feel like the message is almost the same in them all just played out differently. The ending of 'The Judgment After The Last' made me think thats its trying to show that everyone is going to end up the same unless you dig deeper into yourself

I think '4 short essays' are actually poems. As well as 1 ("therefore") is a short poem thats only one word. I think these 'essays' could make an arguemtn but its hidden within the text. I can assume that the writer of this poem isnt white, I think he is Asian, because he says he is "so healed when white people finally shut up about that one time they went to Asia... a fixed dictator & dumplings past." He shows how white culture appreciates other cultures but cant stop bragging about them.