W15 Part B Reading Notes the salve trade

Reading notes are from “the salve trade” by Moten. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53480/the-salve-trade

• The salve trade makes me think of like plants like agave and aloe Vera, having that salve inside...
• The author has an interesting sense of writing, a bit similar to some poems we read, but also very dissimilar too. 
• Inglewood is nice I think? I’m not familiar with that area. 
• Dancing to fantastic info, is it an informer?
• “The whistle sounded good like a kiss on a train” this sentence just feel jumbled, but it makes you double read it cause of that. 
• Under the water and no survivers, “sleeping with the fishes” euphemism comes to mind. 
• Ivory waistcoat, but who is the one, the digger or the dead? That changes a lot. 
• Is school harming their relations with their cultural people? Sometimes it can influence it due to cliques and groups. 
• Helicopter moms definitely with those women watching their kids. 
• The poor nurses, to have to deal with rowdy people at the hospital. 
• What are they burning, the future? 
• Do what you want to make yourself happy, cause why bother if you’re not is how I felt with that last few lines. 
• That was a really difficult to understand poem. I’m not too good at finding those “deeper” meanings in writings like this, I guess it’s an acquired skill.