Another experience that the "Parents Poem" brings to mind is listening to my mother talk on the phone in her professional voice and her normal voice. The narrator talks about how his or her mom worked as a receptionist and she had her work voice and normal mother voice. When I call my mother at work she always answers her phone with her professional, proper phone voice. Once she realizes it me my mother goes back to her normal southern everyday voice. This made me smile and chuckle just a little after reading this part of the poem. I brought my experience with talking to my mother to the poem, which reader-response call reader act on the text. I did not simply look after the part about the narrator's father, however I honestly did not relate
