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Hello- this is a critique for :iconwriters--club:


This poem's best feature is its optimism and the way that it is conveyed. Poetry (especially more modern poetry) tends to be on the gloomy, or at least wistful, side, but this piece is like a breath of fresh air. The story might sound grim if the reader stops and thinks about it- but they don't, because they're caught up almost immediately by the wave of cheerful, no-nonsense rhymes. I can almost imagine the narrator of the poem dancing around their apartment with their cleaning rags and bleach, like it's a musical.


I also like the references to specific songs that are used in this piece- they help to ground the poem in our reality. It would be interesting to know how many readers understood the Folsom Prison references.


I do see one grammar error: in the fifth stanza, “there's others” should be “there are others”, unless you were using dodgy grammar to keep the informal feel of the poem.


Great poem! Keep writing!