Jack,
You've got some hard-hitting reviewers for this piece already, and I'm not gonna read anything they said. I sorry. esp if I repeat anything.
So!
Let us be quixotic.Literally.
That line is srsly not needed and needs to be abolished. The rest of the poem, however is delicious and should be kept just as is! I enjoyed the references and the play on words - that's like a strong suit of yours, and it's almost like a characteristic quirk of your poems, I think that's really neat! x)
Beginning with the title - (by the way, why keep the title un-capitalized? and not mirror the same style for the rest of the poem? Why not just capitalize the title? I know you made a conscious choice - I'm just curious!) and the rest of the references to Quixote, you do get a sense of the fantastical and the imaginary, and I want to know more about the "us" that "you and I" relationship :3 which is a good thing, that I want to know more about the speakers. It's just evident that I've fallen greatly attached to the voice/speaker.
I have a better idea.
I'll write you something you will never read.
I love the sudden twist, here. The departure from the fantasy to the philosophical - which I find to be another shared trait of your poems - these philosophical aspects that are just drenched in there. With these lines, I almost want to re-create that phrase, "if a tree falls in the forest, will anyone hear it?" If "you" will never read it, does the fictional tree really fall?
You seem to suggest yes! Am I to assume that this poem is about the parallel between fiction and reality - that they're actually connected?
Your last line, btw. Powerful. Well-phrased! It will be ringing in my mind.
~ as always, Audy
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