boys die on these streets / Discussion

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UncannyClown 31 Aug 2024 02:47

thank you to rosie

*holds poem gently*

SunnySundays 31 Aug 2024 03:08

This poem is so so tragic to me. There's no great Homeric disaster, just a stagnant house of decay and cold and oh man I'm going to be thinking about this one for a while. "while your wife […] thinks about how a house is a collection of panic rooms and escape hatches" is the single most impactful line imo. It took awhile for it to hit.

The title had me musing for a good while. "boys die on these streets" comes twofold— boyhood dies, in trans self-discovery; meanwhile— boyhood dies, in the father's lost love and compassion. God. +1

Maxyfran73 01 Sep 2024 00:45

Jesus. There's just something so unnerving in the way you tell this story, this calm serenity coupled with the heavy, unmerciful content presented. Really liked this one. +1

zipzipskins 10 Sep 2024 20:41

i came in hear very specifically to talk about how i read the "wife reading plath" stanza and just. froze. for a long time. and then i saw sunny had already said it. wow. this is so personal, so intense, so crushing. really beautiful, painful. you're saying something so important. plus one.

Snapdragon133 20 Sep 2024 04:27

As I said in our dms: "this poem makes the bad feeling! The icky!" What a nasty, sticky poem, I'm obsessed with it. It really feels like rotting on the page. Haunting, even. +1