On Death. 1st Edit
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(09-02-2017, 06:21 PM)billy Wrote:  On Death.

Like everyone I have a hidden citadel,
an ex wood-wormed drawer where treasures trove. -- using trove as a verb makes me break out in a nasty rash.  It's just mean.
Twin Watermen lay in state -- owning just one would make me very happy for all time
embraced in shrouds of fine filigree.
Upon their autopsies the worst was confirmed:
exsanguinated, bled out like Halal
chicken on Eid Al-Adha. -- love this simile-upon-metaphor construction
I'd sacrificed them like a Muslim holy-man; 
a final stroke for each.
I never fed them but the once,
and replaced each one in turn.
Flawless in the right hands -- perhaps other/better hands or something?  Right seems odd, except as a contrast to left I suppose
they never marched to my tempo.
Zig and zag they went, darting
in tongues they spoke, undecipherable. -- I think you could get rid of "they spoke" -- the repetition against "they went" doesn't work for me
How they vexed me, left me blue-fingered,
blue-thumbed and humbled. -- great sonics
Their sweetly etched  14 carrot toes kicking page -- carat
after crumpled pages to the trashcan; -- just page here too, not pages
pissing Prussian over white heavyweight vellum. -- there's the billy twist Thumbsup
They died and in their death throes turned me...

have you met my Biro?
I haven't read other critiques so apologies for repeating if I have.  I only have one beautiful old pen, a Parker that my grandmother gave me for my 16th birthday, and fortunately she doesn't take cartridges -- just sucks the ink straight up and spits it out, half over my fingers, half on the page.  So anyway, upshot is, I like this a whole lot.  I've bolded a couple of spelling/grammatical fixes but as you can see, that's more or less all I've got on this one.
It could be worse
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On Death. 1st Edit - by billy - 09-02-2017, 06:21 PM
RE: On Death. - by Richard - 09-04-2017, 01:17 PM
RE: On Death. - by billy - 09-04-2017, 03:41 PM
RE: On Death. - by ellajam - 09-04-2017, 08:55 PM
RE: On Death. - by billy - 09-04-2017, 09:42 PM
RE: On Death. - by ellajam - 09-04-2017, 10:15 PM
RE: On Death. - by billy - 09-04-2017, 11:57 PM
RE: On Death. - by Achebe - 09-04-2017, 10:48 PM
RE: On Death. - by billy - 09-05-2017, 12:08 AM
RE: On Death. - by nibbed - 09-05-2017, 09:40 PM
RE: On Death. - by Leanne - 09-06-2017, 04:39 AM
RE: On Death. - by shemthepenman - 09-06-2017, 07:05 AM
RE: On Death. - by billy - 09-06-2017, 08:12 AM
RE: On Death. 1st Edit - by billy - 09-08-2017, 05:10 PM
RE: On Death. 1st Edit - by Wjames - 09-10-2017, 02:14 AM
RE: On Death. 1st Edit - by billy - 09-11-2017, 04:08 PM



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