Stop looking at me like that
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(01-22-2016, 01:34 PM)Skye Wrote:  Don’t you THINK I know? -- I don't think the caps adds anything to the piece 
How alone I’ve been?
How alone I am?
Even when you’re home?

Rocking on the bathroom floor
Back and forth back and forth
Manic laughter primal sobs -- I like the idea of this line, maybe try difference descriptions.  As now, it sounds a bit cheesy.
I WATCHED myself lose it

Don’t you THINK I know?
How bad it is?
How far I’ve fallen?
Everything I’ve lost?

Grieving into the silence
Screaming myself numb
My toes were frozen on the tile   --I like this stanza
I SAW my crazy eyes reflected  --again not sure about the use of caps.  I don't like the use "crazy eyes"  maybe something like " I saw foreign eyes reflected"

Who the hell was there?
Whose arms wrapped tightly
Around my shoulder blades
In the dark at 3am?

A very chaotic piece, which is part of why this poem works.  I can only imagine what the speaker has gone through.    However, with its chaotic nature, I think a bit of meaning is lost.  Maybe try to be a bit more descriptive or even add some more stanzas, but just enough not to reveal a full image.  I think that's another pro of this poem is that we are left to wonder what happened to the speaker and come to our own conclusions.   

-Nick
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Messages In This Thread
Stop looking at me like that - by Skye - 01-22-2016, 01:34 PM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by dukealien - 01-22-2016, 11:59 PM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by Bunx - 01-23-2016, 03:32 AM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by the french these days - 01-23-2016, 05:51 PM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by Brujo - 01-25-2016, 04:40 AM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by Skye - 01-30-2016, 09:26 AM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by Erthona - 01-26-2016, 06:18 AM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by just mercedes - 01-26-2016, 02:42 PM
RE: Stop looking at me like that - by kkieran - 01-27-2016, 01:29 AM



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