Poetry outloud- why I chose my poem

I chose my poem, Eating Together because I liked the title and the name just got my attention. Since I like cooking I really liked the poem and how the author describes what they are having for lunch and how all the good smells come together. I think the poem isn't like some of the other poems that the other students are doing because I think that this poem is also about the author's father and how he's not with him anymore. This poem to me is a serious poem so even though it's about cooking it's also about his father.
The competition to me isn't that important because even though I want to win it's not a big deal to me. I don't think that I will win and I'm not planning on it because there are other people are better at reciting poetry than I am. To memorize my poem I just had to write the poem down again and again until I got it memorized. For me the easiest way for me to memorize something is to write down and do that until I have it memorized. I'm excited to see what people are going to do for the competition.