Catoptric

[shemthepenman]

Hi shemthepenman,

Okay, this is a deep metaphoric freak-out! Especially to a fattened girl. I read it several several times. I like your use of fonts, it gives it a strange tuxedo feel to it. Don't know why I see a tuxedo, weird, how that works. Maybe it's more black and white, no tux. Maybe the word waiter, maybe my mind clicks over to French waiters wearing tuxedos. The only thing that stalled my flow of thought were the words pinhole stare. I don't know why it just didn't seem to fit, but then probably because it popped up another weird place in my mind.

-nibbed

it’s uncanny you should describe it as “black and white” (although, i use this font persistently with all my poems) because i wrote this when my ex-girlfriend was reading The Great Gatsby. and i hadn’t read it and i had no interest in reading it; but i was entirely fascinated by the cover of the book. i would see it lying about, here and there, around the flat. i can’t even exactly picture it now, in my head, but it was a black and white photo of something or other, it looked like a hotel room, a cigarette, an ash tray, something art deco, etc. and i wrote this as a kind of speculation about what was behind that cover. what i would have wanted the book to sound like. something like a nightmare in black and white.
of course, having read it, it’s completely disappointing. these few lines are better  than anything f. scott fitzgerald ever wrote in his entire career. although, the film with dicaprio is good. good soundtrack.