Thought I could stay out of this one but I can't.
My only contact with this poem (is it really a poem? more like a journal)
was reading it on Lactnet.  I do not know the context in which it was first
published, and therefore do not know what the writer intended to provoke in
her readers.
I, too, wondered why she sounded so wistful when it seemed things were in
her control to do it differently.
But now I feel that her honesty, in stating all the feelings she had, all
the stuff that is making some of us angry and others sympathetic, is the
most striking feature of the poem.
If I had had a similar experience, I don't think I would care to share it
with the world because I would feel it put me in a less than good light.
And yet she lets us see it.  Perhaps what she wants is to encourage others
to do what she, for reasons not illuminated by the piece itself, could not.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand

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