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FranktheFrank
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Sleep - Removed for Submissions

#1 Post by FranktheFrank » 18 Feb 2017, 16:17

'If I don't attray Head, an apt title.

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Billy
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Re: Sleeping Around

#2 Post by Billy » 18 Feb 2017, 22:10

All I can say is: why don't we put all our own sins on display? I've lied, womanized, betrayed. I've got the same list. But a lot of people see the good I've done, too.

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Re: Sleeping Around

#3 Post by BobBradshaw » 18 Feb 2017, 22:30

I like the poem....but the last two stanzas don't rachet up any emotion...and the irony is already established. I might end the poem on:

we’d bought into the suspension
of disbelief and he knew it.

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Re: Sleeping Around

#4 Post by FranktheFrank » 18 Feb 2017, 23:30

Why not indeed.

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Re: Sleeping Around

#5 Post by FranktheFrank » 18 Feb 2017, 23:32

Thanks Bob, valuable feedback.

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