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[quote=Anonymous]This is what we can't have boys read because it isn't "exciting" or "fantasy wish granting".  Think about the message you give your sons when you tell them this is not a poem you want them learning from so they'll have to go to the library instead.

(Note: The last thing that happens before this poem is that she says "We have to stop".)

The Next Move

I wait for him to call me all the names
 I know girls get called in this moment.

I sit up and hold my bra against my chest 
with no memory of how I became undone.

When his fingers brush against my spine 
my whole body stiffens. Waiting.

But he only pulls my straps up and 
snaps my bra closed. Hands me my T-shirt.

We are silent as I get dressed. 
I wait for him to hand me my boots.

To point me toward the door.

I know this is how it works. You put out or you get out.

So I am surprised when instead of my boots Aman hands me his own T-shirt,

and when I look at him confused 
he takes it back and uses the sleeve

to wipe the tears sprinting down my cheek.

Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X (p. 328). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

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