02-13-2014, 11:55 AM
(02-13-2014, 09:34 AM)Erthona Wrote: The tense is confusing, especially to start the poem:Thanks for the input Dale. Regarding the tenses, you're right.
"He's talking about doing
chores on his vacation while growing up."
"He's talking about having to do
chores on his vacation when he was a kid."
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"Once every year he'd find himself in Victoria,
trimming bushes and fixing his mother's
house."
This is confusing. Did he not live with his mother, or did she have a house they did not live in?
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Sort of the same type of editing throughout.
Fun poem though.
Dale
(02-13-2014, 10:00 AM)ellajam Wrote: I grin each time I read this. I like the contest of who had it worse, it screams youth ( or immaturity of they're old enough to be counting their blessingsI'm so glad you like it ella.).
I like the stomach, it moves the piece into intimacy.
And the big dick thing is funny (they never out grow that one.).
Thanks for posting it, it's a relief.
Side note, I've always wondered what your alias meant.
It just seems to make me hungry.
But everything makes me hungry.
(02-13-2014, 10:08 AM)just mercedes Wrote:I really liked the input you had to offer, so I made some changes. Thank you so much. :](02-11-2014, 02:30 PM)newsclippings Wrote: Free-Ranging Allowed, Creative Responses EncouragedAs always I want to chop away - I like the change in subject matter, reflects how our attention often switches to sex ...love the impact of the last line.
I realize this is a mockery of a poem and more like me transcribing spoken word, but feel free to respond in whatever fashion you'd like.
He's talking about doing
chores on his vacation [while growing up.] Implied by the next lines?
[Once every year he'd find himself] in Victoria, doesn't add anything
trimming bushes and fixing his mother's
house. I say I'd have loved that house [over my
vacations,] better than? [worse than chores] implied because
planning [them] took weeks, arguments exploded
in long car rides down to Virginia in 95 degree
weather, no air conditioner working because
the Mercedes overheated. [We don't overheat surely?]The motels were
always shitty and I'd spend more time in [the]
chlorinated pools than on the beach,
because [the] pools were clean and lacked seaweed,
or jellyfish. I told him he's [was]privileged to have had
it and he turns away, "no, no, no, no,
don't say that." He goes on about
why his life was tough and I try to sympathize
but all I can think about are his drawstring curls
formed by incessant heat from the dryer.[lovely image!]
[All I can think is] repeated? maybe just and how I like to sit in the dip
his stomach makes when he's lying on his back
and how I can feel his bones digging into
my ass after a while. I think about how he's
young and complains a lot,
and how now he gloats about the dick
I convinced him was big. Except he says it
in front of friends; makes me quiet.
Makes me think I should [laud over] sounds clunky, maybe brag?
how tight my pussy is.
And yes. Mercedes' overheat. Least the older versions do.
*models
I'll be there in a minute.


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