08-04-2014, 04:54 AM
(07-20-2014, 08:36 PM)Keith Wrote: A loose suited cool linen swagger -- loose-suited?I felt transported by this, as if the everyday world melted away the moment he stepped through the door. As you'll note, my suggestions are minimal.
eclipses the burden of daylight
adjusting down well-trodden steps, -- a semi-colon is probably better here
nicotine fingernails trail on billboard walls
to an ugly door that opens with a mumble.
The bar stools gesture through half closed eyes -- love this!
lifted from beer mat stares,
closing again with a head back sip.
Hips sway through pungent clouds,
reverb touches seersucker on stilettos, -- nice alliteration
heavy handed from a dub step base.
He falls familiar to a corner seat and closes his mind, -- would you consider "Familiarly he falls..."? And a semi-colon instead of the comma
behind the aroma of a Black Russian, he slips
under the underground again. -- perfect ending
It could be worse
