03-15-2017, 02:24 AM
Hi tommyb
Welcome to the site. I have some thoughts for you below.
Also, I'd think of another title. The one you have 'gives away' one of your best lines.
I enjoyed the read, thanks for posting!
Lizzie
Welcome to the site. I have some thoughts for you below. (03-13-2017, 07:14 AM)tommyb Wrote: The self-indulgence of daydreaming at night, -- good opening lineThe first stanza has two sentences that are not sentences but dependent clauses. I'd rectify that.
wondering if California Anchorman could ever fly. -- I googled this, but couldn't figure out what it is.![]()
Walking a lot by murk of evening -- you don't need "a lot"
and sleeping.
And it broke me. Like the bullfight, and Brett and a bullfight,
and a soft name in a phone, and that perfect name in between. -- I really like these last two lines. Good concrete detail.
And all I ever did was love her, he said,
but not me.
I think. -- I'd omit this. It feels tacked on, but not in a good way. Integrate it somewhere or else I'd drop it.
When bombs don't go off,
little is rebuilt which is perhaps kinder -- I like these two lines, the alternate perspective
though so much less helpful. -- this sentence is fairly weak because "helpful" is not specific. It's too vague.
This world should end
sometime -- I like the ending too.
Also, I'd think of another title. The one you have 'gives away' one of your best lines.
I enjoyed the read, thanks for posting!
Lizzie

