For+My+Children



-Format as a letter to her children -Color and Imagery -Truthful narration -hollow-empty; didn't help me? -Stole fruit--poor; relates to "Still Memory" -Being comical about fruit -Never bored -On drugs--describes time--80s? -Her teen years--after high school -Imagery and sensory -Sea--water repetition -Earth turning beneath my seat--she is still while the world goes on -Simile-like a carpet yanked by some giant hand--comical?? -trying to move her -Saw history in a seed-life, drugs? realization -eyes like black moons--tired? living -"you ever heard"--from previous stories she's told her children -"I called my mom" maybe she includes this to let them know to call her after they are done on their adventures -Tone shift -Spent her money to come home -She got her wild life out of the way; she comes home to go to college, get a job -She grew up--became boring -"I hardly budge" showing her life is boring -Not meant to warn--don't do what I did -Says go do it--have a life, have fun

-Don't fear--be okay with growing up and being boring