The poem “Changing Diapers,” by Gary Snyder says to me, “stay at home dad.” In today’s society dad’s who stay at home are more prominent than they use to be. Dads have taken on the mother role recently and it has become very common. In this poem Snyder addresses changing his son’s diaper. He seems to make it sound like more of a manly task, and not the simple task of a diaper change. Snyder writes, “How intelligent he looks!/ on his back/both feet caught in my one hand/ his glance set sideways,/ on a giant poster of Geronimo” (lines 1-5) in these lines, if you had not read the title, you may not realize what Snyder is talking about. The poem then comes round and described the baby. To me this is a stay at home dad who does not look at diaper changing as a females job, but a manly job that he and his son make masculine and routine.