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    1. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

      This final stanza now reflects how in this generation we live in, generation before may try to cut the legs we stand us but to question themselves, they act like they know everything similar to the white men from the previous poem but we got to question them in what they do, not on what we do.

    2. is just a clever sort of . . . thing to disguise the fact that we’ve become the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since . . . you know, a long, long time ago!

      It's still showing in his tone while writting this that, this generation has become one where many of us can't express ourselves freely without some type of pushback from people who generations who lived way before us

    3. And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness

      Disarticulation is the sugerical procedure of seperation of a limb, so is tying back the comparison of the rain forest.

    4. What has happened to our conviction? Where are the limbs out on which we once walked? Have they been, like, chopped down with the rest of the rain forest?

      This an interesting comparison due to the rainforest being a beautiful natural thing, where cutting it down is seen as breakign from that nature into the more futuristic/dsytopian, where they compared to their voice in this world

    5. Or do we have, like, nothing to say? Has society become so, like, totally . . . I mean absolutely . . . You know? That we’ve just gotten to the point where it’s just, like . . . whatever!

      Now Taylor is telling us how society who been targeting his voice is ... you know. :)

    6. I’m just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?

      This wording, I'm trying to understand what it means like I think I got an idea but need to finish this reading to fully understand

    7. as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not— have been infected by a totally hip and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?

      I've said this before in Mellisa poem where, I say that maybe they don't understand her because of differetn choice in words because of everchaning words of the english language due to internet culture.

    8. Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)’s have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences? Even when those sentences aren’t, like, questions? You know?

      WAIT I UNDERSTAND IT NOW, the parenthetical and question marks are meant to show the sentence even when it's not a question, the opressive crowd treat like a question because they believe he doesn't know anything similar to what Mellisa was doing. Genius.

    9. In case you hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you’re talking about? Or believe strongly in what you’re saying?

      This an intresting opener, it so far sounds like they believe in something but others who I'm guessing due to the conenction to the other poem, they don't believe them due to a certain bias or other reason.

    1. and in that moment you murder it with all the poison in your like softness you let it know that like this like this moment it’s like, uhm, you know me using my voice

      And then it ends with all the softness that they would believe they have to suddenly. For them to finally listen with just her voice.

    2. You gotta take it to the mall too teach you to do the bend and snap paint its nails braid its hair Tell its looks like really good today

      I think it's meant to say for them to udnerstand they must be in her shoes.

    3. ’cause you can’t just challenge authority

      This highlights again about something to do with a authority figures which the white men seem to represent but their oppressive figures of authority.

    4. But I guess feelings never helped anybody I guess like tears never made change I guess like everything girls do is a waste of time

      But even with all her defense is still doesn't make difference to others no matter how many tears cried, if your are not like the white men then it just feels like a waste of time and resources to even try to speak up to others.

    5. Like this is protection like our likes are our kneepads our uhms are our knives we tuck into our boots at night our you-knows are the best friends we call

      This take the earlier concepts of her inner dialogues as proctection like how a girl protects herself when she alone and is someone is coming to get her. Her likes (Kneepads) are procect from her fall, the uhms (knives) are sneaked away in order to defend herself, and the you-knows (best friends) are for those we need in order to call for back up.

    6. it’s like maybe I am always speaking in question because I’m so used to being cut off

      This answers my question on, the line of "women into question marks". I think that girls like herself are treated like question something to be answered. Is like the women doesn't alot and relys another to asnwer her questions for her. Aleast this is what I believe it means.

    7. It’s like rapes happen all the time on campuses but as soon as John Krakauer writes about it, suddenly it’s like innovative nonfiction and not like something girls are like making up for like attention

      This is just a bombshell and it all makes sense now. Girls face alot stuff but weren't believed for it, this supported by the earlier lines. Others only believe it because someone who many people favor such as an author, John Krakauer, they now treat the issue like it's a specactle, a new genre of writting, or just pretend like they always known and try to assume some sort of high ground. While the girl who was trying to say that the whole time is still left forgotten, like this is not her issue and one she isn't making up but actively suffered in.

    8. It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were geniuses for turning women into question marks

      I like both of their works, and now I'm curious what she means by question marks, I'm trying to figure it out like I know it means just can't put into words.

    9. has only gotten in the way of helping them declare more shit about how they will never be forgotten like ever

      I think that the way the old white men or just white men "help" people like her (It's not), is by just declaring nonsense that inturn is just for their own egos so they could go down in history as an all time great while saying an absolute nothing.

    10. Declarative sentences, so called because they declare themselves to be the loudest, truest, most taking up the most space most totally white men sentences

      I'm assuming these are the type of sentences she being fed by others which could moslty refer to the old white men which is even supported at the end of the lines. But one more intresting thing is that she metions "taking up the most space".

    11. I’ve been crossing things out every time I take a moment to think.

      Is showing that this type of action from other does affect her like she has cross some of her own dialogue even in her own head to make it make sense to the others.

    12. Invisible red pens and college degrees have been making their way into the middle of my sentences

      Like it was said earlier about the wait list, people ussally mark her sentences as wrong since some believe because they have a certain achivement that they know more than the person they are talking to. It's like when a proffesor is grading your work all wrong even though it's all right just not the way he wanted the work to be done all because he's the teacher and your the student.

    13. Tell them they have a confidence problem That they should learn to speak up like the hyper masculine words were always the first to raise their hands

      Were continuing from the reality check, were they are questioning her confidence since before they were talking about "speak it like you mean it". But she pointing out that she has a confidence and it's not like the words they would understand would make her speak up any louder than she is already.

    14. Tell them no one would take them seriously in a frilly pink dress or that make up

      Now I'm getting the picture that, this is like a reality check, in her shoes nobody takes her seriosuly or believe she really believes her own stuff due to her words and tone but can also be because she a girl.

    15. and like the internet is ruining the english language

      Maybe she referring to the constant changing of the english language like new slang or lingo which I could admit has dumbed down the way we type and speak english.

    16. and they like put my parentheticals, my likes, and uhms and you-knows on a wait list

      From what I understand, parentheticals are like small dilague between a sentence from the author like a snarky remark. Which the internet/old men "wait list" those like they are from approval like its a college descion?

    17. “Speak like you mean it.”

      Weird Quote, it sounds like the "old men" when talking to her understand as being unsure what she talking about wether is in tone or just the words she uses.