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Nemonus 2007-12-16 . chapter 1
Very good. Reminds me of those lyrics--'you try to scream but it just comes out as a yawn'. I know how the narrator feels. You get the point across particularly well in "She hits the climax, painfully/aware that there is no pain here./And so, she turns her head/and shrugs" and the first two lines. "maybe I can fool them all/and steal what makes them them." and the first lines of that stanza paint a great picture of a character made apathetic and sarcastic, going for arrogance when she could have empathy. Very good.

"There wasn't any life before this desperation;" and the sentence that follows is the only part I really didn't like; it sounded too much like typical angst. If you were trying to convey that the apathy/boredom never ends, and that's what makes it so bad, I'm sure you could express that more clearly. Instead it sounds like a delusion a bit.
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