Geschäftsreise22 Sep 2003

[X] AABB rhyming scheme
[X] About romantic love
[X] About writing
[X] About suicide or self-mutilation
[X] Arbitrary indentation
[X] Arbitrary line breaks
[X] Autobiographical but in the third person
[X] Clerical errors
[X] Clichéd imagery (gazing out of window, pits of despair)
[X] Clichéd rhymes (love/above, heart/apart)
[X] 'Depression' words (putrid, wretched, darkness)
[X] Devoid of alliteration or any such linguistic embellishments
******[_] Devoid of rhyme
[X] Devoid of simile, reification or any such literary devices
******[_] Devoid of wondrous or fantastical imagery
[X] Drug reference
[X] Elves, unicorns, etc.
[X] Insipidly whimsical or zany
[X] Internet shorthand or emoticons
[X] Leaving rant
[X] Lower case
[X] 'Lyrics'
[X] Melodramatic
[X] Naively religious or superstitious
[X] Obsessed with femininity
[X] Overabundance of ellipses
[X] Pointedly unanswered questions
[X] Rage against the machine
[X] Reference to the author's 'social life'
[X] Repetition of a word or phrase to the point of nausea
[X] Sanctimonious
[X] Self-obsessed
[X] Sentimental
[X] Smugly-named protagonist
[X] Thesaurophilia
[X] Untitled
[X] Vicarious wish fulfilment