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I don't necessarily know what it means. I think it's just supposed to be funny that the cleaning lady would emphasize what the frog said instead of the more remarkable fact that she encountered a talking frog. The poem refers to the fairy tale of a prince that was turned into a frog and required a woman's kiss to be turned back to a prince.

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I found the poem in Robert Wallace's Writing Poems. Here is how he introduces it: What is amusing may have underlying seriousness. That is so, too, of this dramatic monologue in which Katharyn Machan Aal empathetically lets Hazel, a charwoman in a Howard Johnson's, speak for herself. Ironically, we see the fairy-story allusion that Hazel misses.

Notice how the poet uses dialect and line, controlling the flow and inflections of what Hazel says. The only other thing he says about it is: Irony may deepen and enrich by making the reader aware of things or aware of them in ways the speaker doesn't see, as in "Hazel Tells Laverne. I don't think I got the frog story description right. Check it out here: Frog Prince.

This poem is ironic and if you try to understand it you won't be able to.