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  1. Dec 2021
    1. Nice to meet you, where you been?

      This is ironic and a slight contradiction because she says "Nice to meet you" giving the impression she has never met this person before, then says "where you been?" giving the impression they have met before.

    2. New money, suit and tieI can read you like a magazine

      A simile comparing this person to a magazine, possibly she thinks this person has a bad reputation, because after this she talks about rumors and before this she talks about how this person that she likes is all dressed up but the money and the suit is new. This can translate to the reader as greed or of power depending on how you think. The fact that it's new gives the impression that they have worked to get this stuff, and didn't always have it.

    3. Love's a game, wanna play

      This is a metaphor comparing Love to a game. The use of the comma after "loves a game," and then using the question mark after "wanna play?" Creates this sense of tension.

    1. balance in the process,    inexplicably falling, hitting the floor with a wild, headlong motion

      The commas come quicker at this part creating this pressure

    2. floating perfectly through the net.

      We don't get a single period till the end of the poem, it is all commas till the end. The author did this to give the reader a sense of conclusion, also using periods is like a small pause compared to a full stop, this builds tension and creates this flow that displays the ideal of the game.

    3. brothers

      Comparing the team mates to brothers further shows that the team has probably been training to get such good chemistry and creates this sense of strength that the readers want to route for.

    4. filling the lanes in tandem

      Tandem- means having two things arranged in front of each other.

      so they seem to be team mates who are filling out the lanes or court as a strategical thing, it could also be that the author is just trying to say that the team is working and moving together

    5. slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard,

      This is a simile to and is almost an outside joke as he compares this tension to the game to how a coach would draw on a blackboard. This shows that our author has some childhood memories of this ideal.