edpeterson19 Mar 2005

Novelty is overrated. Here, a story is being told and being told well. How original is it to die? Doesn't make the death of someone you love any less painful or important or novel.

The writing is direct and concrete. It is written with both skill and emotional restraint, to the degree which is possible anyway.

I can hear an argument that this is not poetry, and, as I am not really a poet, I would not argue. I would argue if one were to posit that this is not exemplary writing. It is.