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Some Actions Are Pointless

"Do Not Say Goodbye”, is a poem that is about a man explaining many different situations where he has had saying goodbye to people. Each one that this man states has a different meaning. Each topic the author talks about shows how goodbyes are useless and that we shouldn’t say them. The question is, why is he telling the reader about his experiences with having to say goodbye? He is trying to give the reader a glimpse of why saying goodbye shouldn’t even be an option. In “Do Not say Goodbye”, Sasenaring Persaud begins with a jovial tone that turns negative in order to prove why goodbyes are useless.