"My mother said he was in his forties" - It's actually thirties
"Two little boys with a magic marker marked her" After this a line is missed, which is "And it won't come out", which I think is pretty important.
Aside from that, this poem is incredible. It's definitely about child abuse, but for some reason I always thought it was about a girl who had been abused more than once, by the two little boys mentioned and, of course, the brother. I also thought the speaker was perhaps a lover or something:
"I want to call him names
But only mine seem to fit"
Since he found out about the abuse, he feels that by having sexual relations with her, he has taken part in the molestation:
"And if you rub your fingers
Ever so softly on her inner thigh
She’ll stop you"
The above lines further seem to suggest that he knows this from first hand experience.
"My mother said he was in his forties" - It's actually thirties
"Two little boys with a magic marker marked her" After this a line is missed, which is "And it won't come out", which I think is pretty important.
Aside from that, this poem is incredible. It's definitely about child abuse, but for some reason I always thought it was about a girl who had been abused more than once, by the two little boys mentioned and, of course, the brother. I also thought the speaker was perhaps a lover or something: "I want to call him names But only mine seem to fit"
Since he found out about the abuse, he feels that by having sexual relations with her, he has taken part in the molestation: "And if you rub your fingers Ever so softly on her inner thigh She’ll stop you"
The above lines further seem to suggest that he knows this from first hand experience.