APO 96225

"And the father wrote back, / Please don't write such depressing letters. You're / upsetting your mother." (Lines 16-18)

        I thoroughly enjoyed this poem simply because it clearly demonstrates the the phrase, "Be careful what you wish because you just might get it." It almost makes that phrase as easy to understand as the Pussycat Dolls made it! This poem also shows the interesting relationship between a mother and her son. The son in the poem obviously loves his mother, and he does not want to frighten her more than necessary. Odds are, she is already constantly worried because her son is at war. However, the speaker also shows the concern a mother feels for her child. She wants to know every detail of his experiences because she wants to be able to understand and relate to him. She offers sympathy most easily when she can grasp what is going on in her son's life.
      I also noticed the repetition of the phrase, "Dear Mom, sure rains here a lot." This is a syntactical method of defining the roundabout flow of the  dialogue between the son and his mother.