Evwybody’s Pwoblem

Jim Hall’s poem, Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too, is a very humorous poem, but at the same time it holds a much deeper meaning than the initial wittiness suggests. His poem talks a lot about people coming to terms with their lives and their personality and attempting to move from simple and normal to special and extraordinary.
No person is capable of being anyone but themselves. The only person you spend your entire life with is yourself, so you better learn how to make yourself smile. Yes, you can try and change things about yourself such as habits or working on certain character traits, but in the end you will always be you and you will not waver too far from your true self. One can go off and dare to be different, but they know deep down that they are who they are and in the end that’s all that matters. It doesn’t matter if you are simple or weird, as long as you yourself are satisfied with your style of living, then there is nothing to stress about. If you are unhappy with your current lifestyle the only person capable of changing it is you. You may want to
Jim Hall points out in his poem the many problems the average person has with accepting their boring and ordinary lives. In Jim Hall’s poem I would say that the Spiderman suit is a metaphor for a person and their personality. He says, “But den you just can't quit being sometin like SPIDERMAN. You SPIDERMAN for life.” He is basically saying that one can go off and do something special but they will never stop being themselves. Whether you do something unique for a living that you truly enjoy or whether you are stuck with a job that hasn’t changed one bit over the several decades that you have done it, you still will never be able to shed your Spiderman suit. You can’t get rid of yourself; you’re stuck with yourself forever. So even if you try changing yourself by getting an exciting new career or life path, you will still be you, your Spiderman suit is “fwame wesistent.” You can’t start life over anew -or burn your suit- no matter how bad your current situation is. One is stuck with their decisions and they alone are responsible for them. If they don’t like their current situation they cant just hit a giant reset button on life and burn their suit, they have to suffer the consequences of their actions and get through with their Spiderman suit still in tact.
I really liked Jim Hall’s poem because it really stimulated the reader to think about himself or herself. There may be things about yourself that you don’t like, like a physical quality or characteristic, but you can do nothing to change that. One must just move forward with life accepting the fact that they are never burning their suit and that they are staying in the same suit forever. You are never changing, you will always be you, so instead of trying to change suits you should learn to enjoy the suit that you were given. (529)