06-14-2015, 02:53 AM
It's interesting to read how others are interpreting this poem. For what it's worth, I read this as the subject having a pristine reputation, but getting drunk and having sex and getting pregnant, having an abortion, and missing a week of school for the procedure/grief, but pretending to have the flu. Once back at school, she ends up smoking after all because she doesn't want to remember the past week.
If that's NOT what is intended, then like pop poetry, I'm confused about the allusion to one month later and the week off.
That said--I love the structure of the poem and the allusion to the game "never have I ever." Very successful, I enjoyed it.
If that's NOT what is intended, then like pop poetry, I'm confused about the allusion to one month later and the week off.
That said--I love the structure of the poem and the allusion to the game "never have I ever." Very successful, I enjoyed it.