Soda Crackers

Published: July 13, 2020, 1:39 p.m.

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I bought Raymond Carver's All of Us on the strength of one poem and haven't properly explored it yet. I picked it up and chose Soda Crackers - it tugged at me. 

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When I head myself reading it as a monologue and not a poem, new meaning fizzed from the words. The timbre of my voice changed as I read the last line and that's helped me to hear the whole poem differently.

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