Gawkers
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Chris, my main suggestions revolve around my own desire to read this as a series of snapshots to further enhance the voyeurism idea. This requires removing some fillers to give a staccato effect.

(02-13-2014, 06:11 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote:  Gawkers

Ravenous, they come
gnawing with desire,
from the road-kill photographer -- you could remove from the, put a comma after photographer, ie.

road-kill photographer,
carrion scavenger

which might even work better with a colon after desire


to carrion scavenger.
They draw close to observe -- perhaps a comma after close and remove to
a still life of running shoe,
the battered knockoff purse
and a sandwich half-chewed, -- wondering what the and is doing here, in the middle of a list
a flayed best seller,
some scattered paper,

college-ruled. -- nice use of white space here

The gestalt exhibition
is a massive décollage -- massive doesn't add anything for me
air-brushed in hemoglobin,
arrayed upon asphalt

as another roadside attraction.

Center stage is a leaden grotesquerie -- you might try "Center stage: a leaden grotesquerie" -- this has a twofold effect of turning up the pace and playing on the stage direction format
fashioned in heavy metal,
shattered glass and burnt rubber;
a botched Titan's accordion -- lovely sonics with accordion/cordoned
cordoned off in yellow

as if tragedy were a crime. -- excellent insight

The strewn victims
seem almost incidental -- almost robs this line of its power
to this prying pack
as they sink low on all fours

to drain the outlook lifeless. -- this last line is problematic for me as I read it as "outlook lifeless" (as if it were lifeless to begin with) rather than that they're draining it lifeless, which is I think what you're going for. Anything I can think of as an alternative right now is cumbersome though
It could be worse
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Messages In This Thread
Gawkers - by ChristopherSea - 02-13-2014, 06:11 AM
RE: Gapers - by Erthona - 02-13-2014, 10:33 AM
RE: Gapers - by ChristopherSea - 02-13-2014, 10:03 PM
RE: Gapers - by newsclippings - 02-14-2014, 08:19 AM
RE: Gapers - by tomoffing - 02-14-2014, 07:29 AM
RE: Gapers - by ChristopherSea - 02-14-2014, 09:45 PM
RE: Gapers - by Erthona - 02-14-2014, 08:56 AM
RE: Gapers - by tomoffing - 02-14-2014, 09:31 AM
RE: Gapers - by heslopian - 02-15-2014, 01:15 AM
RE: Gapers - by ChristopherSea - 02-15-2014, 08:44 AM
RE: Gapers - by Erthona - 02-15-2014, 03:12 AM
RE: Gapers - by just mercedes - 02-15-2014, 10:16 AM
RE: Gapers - by ChristopherSea - 02-16-2014, 12:46 AM
RE: Gawkers (edit 1) - by ChristopherSea - 02-21-2014, 05:06 AM
RE: Gawkers (edit 1) - by Leanne - 02-22-2014, 09:38 AM
RE: Gawkers (edit 1) - by ChristopherSea - 02-22-2014, 11:48 PM
RE: Gawkers (edit 2) - by ChristopherSea - 02-23-2014, 02:41 AM
RE: Gawkers (edit 2) - by Leanne - 02-23-2014, 05:05 AM
RE: Gawkers (edit 2) - by ChristopherSea - 02-23-2014, 05:30 AM



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