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Alert! This conversation is about to reference some real old
school, French poetic styles. If Alexie wasn't such a poetry
ninja, this part would put us to sleep. Luckily, Alexie's
handling of t... Oh, our poor speaker. He just can't do
anything, right can he? In that sense, he's the classic ne'er-
do-well dad, always trying, never succeeding, to do good. Yep,
he's a pretty typical guy. And th... Basically, "Dangerous
Astronomy" opens in the son's dark bedroom and remains there
until the final stanza when the speaker "walked outside and
praised the stars." However, throughout the poem, a te...
"Dangerous Astronomy" has a sing-songy feel because of all that
repetition and rhyme, but it's also very casual and
conversational, as if someone is recounting a story to a frien