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I want to be famous to shuffling men

who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.


The end of line 15 runs into line 16. When the poem is read aloud, the effect is to ―
Answer choices for the above question

A. slow the speed of the poem, which contrasts the shuffling men

B. speed up the poem, which contrasts the shuffling men

C. slow the speed of the poem, which copies the shuffling men

D. speed up the poem, which copies the shuffling men

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Answer:

D. speed up the poem, which copies the shuffling men

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