Did you get them? Did you recognise, for instance, that the first poem is the poet's recollection of cancer ravaging her mother, and of how she walked to the h

Did you get them? Did you recognise, for instance, that the first poem is the poet's recollection of cancer ravaging her mother, and of how she walked to the hospital every day to see her? Did you understand and just not care, or did you not understand and so find nothing to care about?