Roles & Resentment
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(11-12-2014, 04:10 AM)rowens Wrote:                                         Roles & Resentment 



creeps, creeps everywhere Do you intentionally start with a small case letter? Same for 2nd stanza. 
populating the underworld.  Everywhere or the underworld? Or you mean the underworld is everywhere? 
A society of executioners with no victims *

judges them.
Security is a victimless crime. *

creeps everywhere! pathetic monsters,
losers with no sense of pride
where pride isn't given;
everyone abides by a law of consent.

Those who mock and sneer are the most insecure of all. You don´t need "of all" This line sounds a bit less poetic with the rest. Sounds like narrative almost. Maybe because of its length. 
No one should be cowed under those eyes;
better to soil your pants or rape a twelve year old in public These are the only vivid images of the poem, they save the day. Otherwise it is very abstract. Comprehensible, yes, but abstract. Dont know if you want to keep it like that. The abstracness might work well for the establishment of the fear of being observed by those vultures. In that case, I would do away with these specific images. If not, I would add some somewhere else. 
than fall prey to insecure vultures.

Laughter, creeps, creeps and laughter! I can really feel the hysteria here. Nice gradation, good use of the excl. mark. I also very much like the way you mixed the beginnig of the stanza-opening line with "creeps" and actually not the "creeps" - a good synthesis of the opening lines of the first 2 and the 3rd stanzas. 
As pleasure is inverted guilt, *
anyone having a good day
is living at someone else's expense. *
All not commented on lines work well for me. The appreciated images/metaphors or whatever... are given an asterisk.

Reminds me of Equilibrium or V is for Vendetta. The poem made me read it several times - which is a great successs. I didn´t catch much at the first read but knew there is some and specific meainig to it. Read through it again and again, and liked it more and more. As to the title, the "roles" part is OK, I like the alliteration, but Resentment is eithe too specific, or doesnt match the poem´s focus, because, for me, it focuses mor on the happy creeps rather than the insecure vultures. 

A solid peace of work. I would give the thumbsup smiley did it match the dark atmosphere of the poem
Thistles.
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Messages In This Thread
Roles & Resentment - by rowens - 11-12-2014, 04:10 AM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by SimikPK - 11-12-2014, 04:40 AM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by rowens - 11-15-2014, 03:26 AM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by MajestyApollo - 11-16-2014, 05:31 AM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by Heyyous - 11-16-2014, 03:48 PM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by rowens - 11-18-2014, 06:06 AM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by Christoph2 - 11-26-2014, 03:33 PM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by Ribo - 11-30-2014, 05:12 AM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by calypist - 11-30-2014, 09:40 AM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by Beacherjosh - 12-04-2014, 12:11 PM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by jsoutiere92 - 12-07-2014, 03:08 PM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by QDeathstar - 12-07-2014, 04:06 PM
RE: Roles & Resentment - by QDeathstar - 12-07-2014, 04:11 PM



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