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Re: When Jeff and Jack met
Hai :3 Happy Review Day!! This excerpt has a really strong quiet-meets-ominous atmosphere!! I like that, even when reading out of order, the scene feels emotionally readable. Jack is exhausted, ...
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Re: No peace at the lunchroom
Hai :3 Ooooh, we meet again!! First of all, I really like how claustrophobic this feels!! Jeff’s inner world is so vivid and gloomy, but in a comforting way?? The ...
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Re: With all the love to give to the world and nothing in return
Hai :3 This is such a sweetly eerie Christmas story!! I know it's past that season, but Christmas is my favorite holiday anyway, hehe. I love how it starts with ...
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Re: Something's Got To Break You Down
Hai :3 This is such a sharp, self-aware essay!! I love how it feels like an argument that keeps catching itself in the mirror. There’s this gorgeous tension between classification ...
May 28 -
Re: The death of Ava
Hai :3 I'm not a big prose-y person, but I found this to be so eerie and tragic!! I love how it starts almost like a joke, with that “would ...
May 27 -
Re: precautions to avoid being drafted
Hai :3 I'm here for your requested review!! This is such a brutal poem!! I love how it wrestles with masculinity beyond something simple or external, but more as something ...
May 26 -
Re: violets in winter
Hai :3 Ohhh I like this!! It's so cold and sharp!! I love how compact this poem is, because it feels like watching something small and doomed happen from very ...
May 24 -
Re: Feelings that were left...
Hai :3 The image really caught my eye!! This is so tender and aching!! I love how this poem treats feelings as something separate from the speaker, like even if ...
May 24 -
Re: Growing up feels glamorously grotesque
Hai :3 Aww, this is such a tender and existential poem!! I love how it starts with achievement, but instead of letting achievement feel victorious, it immediately turns into this ...
May 23 -
Re: a.e.m
Hai :3 Another Green Room poem!! Oh my goodness though, this is devastating!! Like, genuinely hard to breathe through in places. There’s such a frantic tenderness to it, the kind ...
May 22 -
Re: Main Character Syndrome explained philosophically
Hai :3 Whoa, this is such a thoughtful, emotionally charged essay!! I really love how you’re trying to connect something very modern and internet-coded with these much older philosophical ideas ...
May 22 -
Re: before i lose my style
Hai chi :3 I'm here for your requested review!! I love how this reads like a list of instructions, but instead of feeling detached, it becomes more and more intimate ...
May 21 -
Re: it is all starlit
Haiii :3 Yay, here for your requested review!! First of all, I love how this poem moves between accusation to this sacred wonder by the end. It feels like the ...
May 21 -
Re: residue
Hai :3 Ohhh whoa!! I love how this poem sits in that strange place between grief and guilt, where even beauty starts to feel like a betrayal for the speaker. ...
May 21 -
Re: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Hai :3 You have so much poetry in the Green Room!! Hm, this is so strange and melancholy in such a specific way!! I love how this poem feels like ...
May 21
