All Comments on 'Raggedy Ann'

....read, and well conceived. Some slight trimming here and there might benefit, and your puctuation fails toward the end --periods after 'denial' + 'perversion'. cooma after 'jailer'.

I wish you had stopped after the 4th stanza and made the rest into another poem. The feeling changes for me when you begin to zero in and write extensively about the landfill.

My thermometer is frozen.

but nicely done. ty tt!

... of the illegal immigrant is truly offensive. This isn't happening on a distant shore, but right under our noses. The true inhumanity of this situation is, that even in the horrible conditions they are forced to live in, at work for the criminals who tricked them, they are better off than in what they've left behind.

... so is that of the rag pickers in the true slums of the world.

"That place of sunken eyes

is haunted, without hope,

drained of life."

Just loved this. ;-)

This could be about abused children, teen prostitutes, poverty's product all over the world - it brings to mind so many things. Very powerful and thought provoking.

in particular hurts, but very emotional write TT, excellent work :)