entertaining
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(11-05-2016, 05:24 AM)lizziep Wrote:  i'm quieting down
receding into the corners

unzipping my skin

allowing you in Better perhaps to separate this and the bottom line,

even perhaps remove the indentation, which reads, in this case, non-functional. Also the gerunds, which with the key rhyme of the next two stanzas, is much weakened here. "i quiet down / recede into the corners // unzip my skin / allow you in"
                        i'm entertaining You could make this more provocative by changing statement into question. "am i entertaining?" It should read more like tendrils of the author's emotion reaching out to the addressed.
i let you drive

i used to do everything
with myself in mind

now i sustain you And I'm still missing the comma here. Hey, you question-mark the latter, right? And that degree of separation enhances the internality, I think.
                         my skeleton Although the enclosure of the above lines does read functional, so I suppose the indentation works.

if you become me then what becomes of me? ...And turning the earlier into a question does tie it to this one. But the break from the hypothetical two-line here makes an appropriate impression, I think, especially with the return to the two line in what is essentially the one-line response at the end.

loving you is my way of flirting
with death ...Although I feel like instead of indenting "my skeleton", this is the line to be indented instead -- or perhaps all lines involving the macabre be indented, such that the association with entertainment becomes concrete.
In general, the poem is a little flat -- it reads like a feeling or a series of thoughts I've read before. Still, it reads well enough, and it did make enough of an impression on me so that I missed this, when deleted. In all, fair enough. 
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Messages In This Thread
entertaining - by Lizzie - 11-05-2016, 05:24 AM
RE: entertaining - by CRNDLSM - 11-05-2016, 06:09 AM
RE: entertaining - by Lizzie - 11-05-2016, 02:27 PM
RE: entertaining - by Ton Romus - 11-06-2016, 03:26 AM
RE: entertaining - by Lizzie - 11-06-2016, 03:17 PM
RE: entertaining - by RiverNotch - 11-07-2016, 10:47 PM
RE: entertaining - by Lizzie - 11-12-2016, 12:14 AM
RE: entertaining - by BecktheDog - 11-10-2016, 10:34 AM
RE: entertaining - by Lizzie - 11-11-2016, 01:02 PM
RE: entertaining - by richard michael - 11-12-2016, 10:38 PM
RE: entertaining - by Lizzie - 11-13-2016, 07:22 AM



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