It goes beyond palliatives, such care. You won't see them
perched on shelves at the Pic & Pac. It's never copious at first.
For some it collects in the arteries or in the brainstem: vengeance,
obsession, or regret moves through channels, ends life
in a shudder. At its core, divorce makes everyone rotten:
even the child, daydreaming in her father's Cutlass
Oldsmobile that Summer of Love, the sky romantic
with possibility. The child crafts a different future,
unmakes a ludicrous past. In the front seat, the father
strokes the hot-pantsed leg of his current paramour,
her hair flat-ironed, winsome. The child feels
the world's skin: porous and tender to the aching.
- author writes in free-verse style
- couplets
- title acts as an interesting twist for the discourse of the text
- throughout the poem the reader feels a type of sexual personae from the narrator
- get the feeling that a mistake(s) have been made (i.e. sex & unexpected pregnancy)
- understanding of the child's realization of himself being an "accident"
- very sensuous and sinsuous imagery
- ambiguous but presents enough information for the reader to gather an overall idea/theme of the poem
- final line in the poem leaves the reader with a sense of loss, hopelessness, and weight.
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