poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on This Is The Sound of My Heart Breaking by Owner of the Sky.

mikejedw10 May 2002

It's not a bad evocation of the scene, but I think there's too many modifiers. For instance, you don't need to say the water is sucked down "powerfully" in the toilet--it doesn't add much. "cheap plastic lighter" could be reduced to one adjective or, better still, none. Etc.