and i think that's kind of what killed it...

like ROMANCE, WAR, TRAGEDY, BLOOD, HORSES GETTING SHOT, RAPE! it felt like a desperate attempt to FORCE the audience to care about what was going on, when in terms of actual plot points and characterizations there wasn't quite as much reason to. it just felt emotionally manipulative and exploitative. world war two shouldn't be a prop.

i guess i look at this from my perspective as a spoken-word poet: a lot of poets write pieces that are so emotionally or politically "heavy" that people feel that they have to love them even if the actual CONTENT and form is wack. does that make sense?

it WAS pretty though.

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