06-04-2014, 06:40 AM
This reminds me of a Simon Armitage poem, "You're Beautiful", about a beautiful woman who doesn't eat meat, is lucky and sunny and everything nice, and an ugly bloke (the narrator) who eats meat, gets drunk etc. I've not heard of this poetic form before. I normally dislike "shape" poetry, but what I've seen here is interesting. You make the visual aesthetic work through your contrasting characterisations, which are peopled with sharp, funny phrasing. Thank you for the read
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

