What is another concern the speaker has in the poem? What is your text evidence to support your answer?
I am fourteen
and my skin has betrayed me
the boy I cannot live without
still sucks his thumb
in secret
how come my knees are
always so ashy
what if I die
before morning
and momma's in the bedroom
with the door closed.

What of the following is a symbol for separation and disconnection?

her knees
the closed door
the morning
the secret