Well, once I saw the red lettering, I lost interest in reading the message. Branding anyone with scarlet letters went out with Nathanial Hawthorne. So I don't know what tjames wrote nor will I read it now. I'm glad tjames is reading your poem as a poem, Shanna. While certainly we have had some lively discussions on this forum that have gone off track, my point was simply that personal preferences and overgeneralizations were not being responsive to your quite reasonable request to have your poem critiqued. I find the men who buy women to be more hateful and despicable then the women themselves (who may lack the education or intelligence or moral instruction to understand they have other choices--though I understand some women choose the profession, there are others who don't understand all that is involved with that choice), but that's personal with me and I don't expect anyone to agree with me nor would I force agreement with that position (so as to speak). I don't, by any means, like or understand everything that is posted in this forum. In truth, I often have trouble deciphering the meaning of some postings here. But no matter, I try to retain respect for the person posting no matter how I feel about the content of their writing. That's all. I'm sorry about all this, Shanna. You're a very talented writer. I've no interest in further derailing the analysis of your poem as a poem. I am not a poet. I can offer no insight or critique on the poem...I would not be so egotistical to pretend to be what I clearly am not. Therefore I am gone from this thread.