protocity

by faith

Published June 30, 2005

In Old Poetry

you can do better than this, brad. maybe if you wrote about something other than slitting your wrists for a change..

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Incandescence
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Incandescence commented Comment · Jul 1, 2005

You probably think it's cliche because I wrote a poem very similiar to it not too long ago. This is a modified version.

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Misty
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Misty wrote a review Review · Jul 1, 2005

meh...you actually managed to write a poem that I don't like. that in itself is a huge accomplishment, because I like almost everything and everyone...

hmm...I guess it was just too cliche. Everyone writes things like this...it's been done. you have to make it original...like, your own, I guess.

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Jennafina
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Jennafina commented Comment · Jul 1, 2005

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Carmina
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Carmina wrote a review Review · Jul 1, 2005

If its not about slitting your wrists, then don't start the poem with slitting your wrists. I think the poem is stronger without the first two stanzas. I actually think the third is strong, and I would start there. Then I could believe that it is about exposing our weakness to society. I do like the part about struggling on cold floors. I can picture that, relate to that.

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faith
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faith commented Comment · Jul 1, 2005

right, well, it's still not very good. *grin*

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Incandescence
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Incandescence commented Comment · Jun 30, 2005

The poem isn't about slitting your wrists. It's about human nature: we expose our weaknesses to a society all too ready to gobble us up and crush our lifeless bones.

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Chevy
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Chevy commented Comment · Jun 30, 2005

faith said it all. i dido her but i did love this part:

"The brick walls and the foreign lampposts are falling down
and they are crushing the life out of everything."



I was flummoxed by fractious Franny's decision to abrogate analgesics for the moribund victims of the recent conflagration. Of course, to display histrionics was discretionary, but I did so anyways, implicating a friend in my drama to make the effect cumulative. I think a misanthrope would have a prosaic appellation, perhaps one related to autonomy and the rejection of anthropocentrism. I think they wouldn't think much of the prominence of watching the coagulation of tea to prognosticate future malevolent events, not even if those events were related to jurisprudence.
— Spearmint