Of Alcoholics and Bittersweet Regret

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Touch--
This, bliss of tactile trust;
Ignorance in a dusty bottle labeled Kirin.
Drink away your nothing,
Become nothing.
Better than foolish wisdom.
Words are meaningless without power and
those who shield it carry swords of lead, but
empty satisfaction is weightless.

No regret or acid disappointment
when life is a drink away, and
dreams are a step from unconsciousness.
No troubles of goals or higher inspiration,
waking up to bitter coffee and cold tea,
doused with laxatives and Corona; and
maybe a touch of doubt.

Some day is the today, ‘cause
with a sweaty filler in one balmy hand and
yesterday’s memories—
nothingness is sometimes best.




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Oy, I feel bad for this, but I have to say I can't exactly think of anything to say. I'm going to have to come back and reread this some other time and really pick it apart. My brain seems to have a current lack to read poetry xD

but I do have this to say:

Touch--
This, bliss of tactile trust;
your punctuation here is real weird.

If I don't come back in a few days, and I probably won't because I forget lots of things, you can PM me. ^_^
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Touch--
This, bliss of tactile trust;


I can see that with the comma after "this," you're trying to bring that word emphasis--the problem is, it's a very ambiguous word, and the comma comes so soon after the dash that it basically stops the tongue in its tracks. Bad idea. In poetry, you want to keep it rolling with some sort of rhythm, not continuously trip over punctuation. Remove the comma and this is actually an incredibly nice little phrase; I'm ambivalent as to "Touch--" getting its own line, but that's the poet's prerogative, ja? ^~

Better than foolish wisdom.


This feels a little incomplete as its own sentence. Perhaps add a dash afterward, so it continues on into the next line? That seems like the best solution to me.

Some day is the today, ‘cause
with a sweaty filler in one balmy hand and
yesterday’s memories—
nothingness is sometimes best.


In the first line, "the" really destroys the flow. Remove it, please! The rest of this stanza is quite lovely. This is a fantastically bitter piece, and it seems to wallow in its own misery; it really comes alive in that way. Brava. =)
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cashing in a crit ticket under another guise. Sorry it took so long to get back to this, Eva!

Touch--
This, bliss of tactile trust; I love the sound of the words in this beginning, but the punctuation is awkward. You could solve the punctuation/linebreak problem by getting rid of the comma and moving 'this' up a line, which moves the emphasis around in some fun ways [touch this?!], and gives a pause after 'this' that isn't awkward.
Ignorance in a dusty bottle labeled Kirin.
Drink away your nothing,
Become nothing.
Better than foolish wisdom. elaborate this idea? It links to the last part of this stanza, but this line is a fragment. You probably want to make it a part of the next sentence or rework it so it can stand as a sentence of its own.
Words are meaningless without power and
those who shield it carry swords of lead, but
empty satisfaction is weightless. the "_____ and ______ but _____" format of this was awkward. You could cut the but and end the sentence after 'lead'. Are you comparing empty satisfaction with the leaden swords? Do those swords become weightless because their use is empty? The end of this stanza gives good images and keeps up the bitter tone, but I'm not quite sure the pieces fit together. Am I missing something?

No regret or acid disappointment
when life is a drink away, and
dreams are a step from unconsciousness.
No troubles of goals or higher inspiration,
waking up to bitter coffee and cold tea,
doused with laxatives and Corona; [s]and[/s] you don't want or need the 'and' when you have a semi-colon, and the doubt phrase is better off on its own line.
maybe a touch of doubt.

Some day is [s]the[/s] today, ‘cause
with a sweaty filler in one balmy hand and
yesterday’s memories—
nothingness is sometimes best. I didn't like the last line when I first read this poem - it felt very prim and prissy for some reason, compared to the rest - but I think it's grown on me. The ending as a whole is strong.




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thanks to you all, and sorry for not responding back for a while.

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