Our town
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The author has definitely taken control over the reader’s attention and feelings. So he went into detail with real life experiences. The author teaches the reader that goodbyes are useless. So instead of saying good bye, you should say something else. Next time I’m at thanksgiving with my family I will changed up my words. Instead f saying goodbye, I would say see you later. You could either do this or you could just wait until death because that’s when people are gone. So the overall meaning of the poem is to show that you should just wait. This is what the author is trying to say because his very last words in this poem were “Do not say goodbye, until we’re gone” (Persaud line 25). The overall lesson that we have learned is that goodbyes are useless because there not official until we are dead.