07-02-2017, 06:36 AM
(07-01-2017, 05:57 PM)just mercedes Wrote: Memories -Much to like here. Considering the title, I would have really liked more contrast between light/dark, black/white. Though the mimicry is definitely present. But then, you know I'm a cheap mythology whore
bottled delusions
tumbling into my blood
down funnels of glass. -- I find this just the slightest bit trite. Considering audiences though, maybe it does need to be this obvious.
Their honeycomb doses
hold hook fittings -- I'm not entirely sure if this is over-alliterated but I think maybe... the "h" sound is a hard one to repeat without a harshness that doesn't quite sit with the "greasy" image in the next line.
and they’re greasy, with ‘Daily’
screaming from the label.
I take them; morning morphs to
evening, enervated, sleepy, -- love the sounds in this strophe, particularly the shifting "e" assonance
and you're still
near.
I crave that opiate,
putrescence slipped into me
disguised. Then I realize:
You are not
that I am. -- I am... putrescence? Ouch. Or is this a callback to still near? Both work, and actually have a similar effect to my reading.
It could be worse
