Before You Were Mine

• Marilyn

  • glamour an desire
• I'm not here yet. the thought of me doesnt occur

  • jealousy
• in the ballroom with the thousand eyes

  • glittering mirror ball
• you recon its worth it

  • wasn't scared of consequence
• my loud, possessive yell

  • loud and demanding baby
  • narrator
• your ghost clatters toward me

  • past wont return
• clear as sent

  • vivid imagination
  • synaesthesia
• whose small bites on your neck sweetheart

  • roles reverse
  • something a parent would say to their child
• stamping stars from the wrong pavement

  • sibilance
  • defiance and energy
  • contrast come from wrong decisions
• i wanted the bold girl

  • mothers glamour is gone due to the narrator being born
• sparkle and waltz and laugh before you where mine

  • repetition to show energetic qualities
  • emphasises then and now
  • develops possession