Who Understands Me, But Me by Jimmy Santiago Baca This poem is about a man who is depressed or mistreated throughout his life, he was sad of his actions so he combined pain and made it into peace and happiness. In the poem he explains “I thought myself how to give myself eyes on my back of my head and when they laugh at me sunshine comes out their mouth.” The story is just not about a man that has been in prison, it’s talking to people with depression and that are emotionally broken down that at the end of the day there is always something to look up to. The author’s tone is very light hearted and sad because his decisions on his past life. He was talking about how he was imprisoned and that they took all his Freedom away. But later in the
