All Comments on 'Katie Bradley's Sea-monkey'

or just be suicidal. TK U MLJ LV NV

reads like some crappy imitation of an even crappier annaswirls poem. U R trying way to hard===seppuku slipped just about gagged me

If I am even a crappy imitation of annaswirls, I can rest happy.

PS: try some fresh ginger for that over-active gag reflex. Always seems to work for me :)

Reviewed in the New Poetry Recommendation thread, Jan 31, 2012

and it has considerable strengths, but I am not sure quite what it's about. I think it is a poem about abortion, more or less from the point of the aborted fetus, but I could be wildly wrong about that. But even assuming I'm correct in that, I'm not sure what the narrator's position is on the subject.

Now the narrator might be conflicted about the subject (if it is abortion, one could hardly fail to be conflicted), but I think (and this is just opinion, of course) that the reader ought to have some sense of what the narrator's opinion is, especially given a controversial subject.

Maybe this is clear to other readers. Maybe (actually, more than likely) I am a complete idiot and the poem is about something else.

Anyway, your poem makes me think, even if wrong-headedly, and thinking is pretty much always good.

Such rawness treated with such a deft and nimble touch. Terrific.

for me, anyone who mentions seppuku in their poem, even off-handed, wins a special spot. yukio mishima is a patron saint. thanks for sharing this!

visceral and unflinching. 'all guts and no glory' was good, but bettered (imo) by 'c-section smile'. a disturbing, uncompromising write. thankyou.