07-07-2015, 11:01 PM
(06-07-2015, 12:16 AM)i.might.be.a.bit.sad Wrote: I didn't get offeredI really like this! The enjambment is lovely and shakes up the rhythm a bit. "Oops", I think, is an odd way to end the poem but I can see why you chose to end it on that. But why's there a different amount of spaces above and below the isolated words? It might just be an aesthetic thing. Either way, quite some depth concealed in this poem.
smokes. I guess people assumed
that I would
neverhurt my body in that way.
We got drunk and almost
fell off the bed.
We did other stuff too,
things I liked because I didn't
have
to think. A month later,
I was still making up work
from that week I missed. I this stanza confused me until I got to the bottom line. Then it made some sense.
"had the flu". I was "fine" some punctuation here would help, but your other stanzas do perfectly well without punctuation on the last line, so...![]()
I...
lied. We smoked during
fourth hour, in that alley
behind school. I never thought
I would want to remember...
Oops.
like you've been shot (bang bang bang)

