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Originally posted by John Hutchcraft:
Anne, the narrator is holding up the man as an object of ridicule, and for the very reasons that you dislike him. "Yak yak yak" is the narrator mimicking (what she imagines to be) the man's voice. The poem does not scream "shut up and let's fuck"; the narrator is pointing out that the man is weird because he wants her to shut up and fuck.
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True, but I think he wants her to shut up and fuck because (and this is what N is thinking) that his mother or his ex-wife/girlfriend was always "yak, yak;
yaking." I don't think she's mimicking him at all - only mimicking what she perceives as what his psyche might be rebelling against.
Or maybe I was wrong, and you were straight,
but ex or mama used to yak, yak, yak;
I think there she's saying that maybe she was wrong in thinking he was gay - maybe he only wanted to head off the constant talking he was conditioned to expect from women by his previous relationships with either his mother or his ex.
At least that's my take on it.