How Art Is Forever Destroyed

It's the book she was reading

the last time we were together. 

The last time her naked body curled

up next to mine to keep warm. The last

time I really kissed someone. Now it sits

in the corner of my room. I can't bring

myself to throw it out.

Reviews

[Pen Draggin']

Adore it, only one little thing. The first line talks about the book in the past tense where at the end, it feels more present tense. I would really like it if the first "can't" in the last line becomes "couldn't" but the rest stays the same. Also, I'm envious of your titles. If I become famous before you I am going to hire you just to write my titles.

[Molly]

Oh, this one made me cry. I could explain exactly how much I love this and why, but that would be pretty pointless and boring, so I'll just say that it's a truly beautiful piece of writing; it captured such bitter-sweet intimacy and sorrow.

[Brittany]

I think this is perfect, as is. We're all sentimental creatures. Even when something brings back those painful reminders of loss, we cling to it because we like to remember what was good when we had it.

[NonWriterGuy]

Understated and pretty cool. It captures bittersweetness/ambivalence well. The tense shift didn't seem like a mistake to me -- it feels like the you're paralyzed in the present, unsure about whether to try to recapture the happy past or forget it and move forward into the future.

[miSS LEaf]

have to add that (imo) the title is impressive; 'forever destroyed' is scary though.. but how long is forever..?
the heart has the measure, thus (to me) it's not that scary anymore.. :)
(excuse my rambling, i don't do it often)

[miSS LEaf]

i watched this poem as i would a 90 minutes movie.. the actors, the set, the plot (past-present-future), the faces, the silence.. mostly the silence, a tale-tell silence; that's how real, sharp and brilliant the poem was to me..
(and how the book was lonely, would stick in my mind for i don't know how long)
~L

[jenniewren (J.W. Bouwma..]

mm this one has a sensuousness inside the awkward heartbreak emotion.
that rejecting, yet clinging to the ones and things that came before, is one of the things that makes human nature so complex and beautiful.

you've taken a simple object, a simple moment and pushed it into a universal experience.. this is a favourite, for sure.

[Sorry Infamous]

I liked this. The memories that stay... the trash we can't throw away.