Monday, April 15, 2013

Living in Numbers (Claire Lee)

I have so many questions about today's poem by Claire Lee?

How is this a poem and not a short story?? Is the poet really a high schooler? When I Googled her name that's what came up, but how cool is that? Puts my hs poetry triumph (published in TeenPeople) to shame to be featured on poets.org.

It's a gimmick of a poem, but it does make me interested in the story untold. (Which makes it a story! Sorry, bugged about its poetry label - the language is uninteresting, the lines are just a list and the concept is cute, but not terribly unique. It's a short short story.)

Favorite line: "Number of friends, Facebook: 744, real: 9"
Number of friends, Facebook: 744, real: 9

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