The buttonholes, the sizing, the facing, the characters Printed in black on neckband and tail.
Describes the shirts and how each is made specials and all are different.
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The witness in a building across the street Who watched how a young man helped a girl to step Up to the windowsill, then held her out
The by standers hope for fate and changes for the children.
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Of cuff I button at my wrist. The presser, the cutter, The wringer, the mangle. The needle, the union, The treadle, the bobbin.
Details about the shirts.
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The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians
Immigrants were getting paid below minimum wage and worked so hard on the shirts but had hard labor conditions.
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Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break
This is there comforting time where they can get a break and talk to others.
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Or does it explode?
In this phrase the author shifts the tone, in all of the connections he gives us it is still food it was but the author points out if we hold our dreams back will it just disappear.
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Does it stink like rotten meat?
If meat was on hold and put aside it would rot and stink.
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Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
The more the raisin is in the sun the more smaller it gets.
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What happens to a dream deferred?
deferred means that is on hold.
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She rises like dragonsmoke
Her soul or just the smoke due to her burning?
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We stand with our handshanging at our sides,while she burns
The bystanders were not able to do anything but watch.
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A skirt of flamesdances around herat dusk.
The skirt she was wearing now is ashes. The next morning.
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The cry I bring down from the hillsbelongs to a girl still burninginside my head.
The author remembers the accident of the burning girl.
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Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips.
The author is saying what the statue means but doesn't have to say it.
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From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome;
The beacon- hand welcomes everyone worldwide, especially immigrants.
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Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch,
Referring the statue of liberty.
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Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.
Wolves and coyotes are silent before attacking pray, this could be cops vs poisoners.
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what wants to crumble you down, to sickenyou.
The author uses this phrase as who or what wants to break you down and weaken you're dreams, goals or even plans you have for yourself.
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in the vertigo cold.in the hot paralysis.
The author has called out for strength even in the dark even in the cold and the hot paralysis.
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Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.Where it is dry.Where it is dry.
She seems like she uses two animals that have thing in common that are usually howling and making noise but it is quite, usually wolves and coyotes are quite before attack prey which could be the prisoners.
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by himself now and laying it gently against the glass for a lay-up, but losing his balance in the process, inexplicably falling, hitting the floor with a wild, headlong motion for the game he loved like a country and swiveling back to see an orange blur floating perfectly through the net.
He went from a layup with all the power he had and fell so hard by doing what he loved and the ball went through the net and he scored.
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until the guard finally lunges out and commits to the wrong man
The guard starts guarding another man and looses focus of the one who has the ball.
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who looks stunned and nailed to the floor in the wrong direction, trying to catch sight
The defender is shocked by the player dribbling the ball through the court and loses focus "trying to catch sight" he was trying to get his eyes back to the ball.
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perfectly, gathering the orange leather from the air like a cherished possession
They are talking about keeping the ball away from the other team like its an important possession of there own.
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop,
A hook shot touches the rim and stays there but the ball does not go in.
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That had I Ballet Knowledge ‑Would put itself abroadIn Pirouette to blanch a Troupe ‑Or lay a Prima, mad,
She doesn't actually do ballet, but dreams about it,
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But oftentimes, among my mind,A Glee possesseth me
Is she an overthinker?
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And though I had no Gown of Gauze ‑No Ringlet, to my Hair,Nor hopped for Audiences ‑ like Birds ‑
Her style wasn't on point but she didn't care because she had no people there with her.
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No Man instructed me ‑
In this line The poet describes her relations with men, she doesn't listen or depend on instructions or being told anything from a man.
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