All Comments on 'On How to Break a Heart'

This poem has been selected for listing in Wednesday's New Poems Review.<br>

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Do you write this from knowledge or from what you assume? That every child that had a crass childhood grows up terminally scarred unable to be a real person and perpetrating the same evils learnt? We are survivors even though your poem has made me shake I will go on surviving I am stronger than whatever you perceive me and others like me to be

Succeding in producing a failed effort in dark humor on cruelty and abuse towards children - hardly an event to celebrate.

This is not a social commentary on anyone but my own parents. It is seen through my eyes. I am twisting the knife of their guilt a little deeper. If you can see some of your life in this - that's nice; but I write for myself. But the thing that's cool, even about your snide comments, is that as much as you hated it, I affected you. I changed you enough to take the time to comment. Job done.

it was a darn good piece, in its way. I don't think anyone really meant offense as such; obviously this is a tough issue and everyone processes it uniquely. That a reader has been deeply shaken, or has processed his or her own abuse differently and comes across as upset doesn't necessarily imply that there is disapproval, as such.

It's a volatile issue, obviously invoking strong responses. I suspect mutual compassion will be a lot more productive than anger in the long run. We're all in this together, yes?

I myself have written things whose topic was distracting enough that the subject became the issue of critique rather than the writing itself. It happens with powerful subjects.

peace.