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a silenced revolution 2008-04-08 . chapter 1
I like the misleading title and the simple, effective rhythm of the four line stanzas. Interesting and dark (without being over the top), and it provides enough detail to be evocative without revealing so much that there's nothing left to imagine.

A few suggestions: I'd take out the 'xx's; I don't really see how they're necessary for formatting and otherwise, they're visually distracting. I'd remove the commas from the ends of the first lines of the two line stanzas; since they're followed by the word 'and', they just seem to minorly interfere with the flow.

'And my eyes ache to close; to sleep.' I could be wrong, but the semicolon doesn't quite seem to belong here. I would just replace it with a comma.

'My ears yell at me to stop listening about you,
And my mouth curses me for talking about it.'
--It could just be me, but these lines don't seem to flow as well as the rest.
Maybe
'My ears yell to stop listening about you
And my mouth curses me for speaking of it.' (I think speaking would sound better than talking, for some reason.)

Anyway, the above are all just ideas, and overall, good work.
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