All The Things I Never Said

Title: All The Things I Never Said

Author: Mae Krell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Year: 2013

Pages: 68 (Paperback)

Rating: 1.5

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There's a problem with honest poems but not poetic at all. There's a problem with honest poems but somehow offensive. That's what I think of this book. Actually I was intrigued to read this. Other than because this book is pretty much thin, I was surprised that it's written by someone 2 years younger than me. Youth has so much potential within them, especially when it comes to creative writing. Just like what I've stated before on my review of The Dogs I Have Kissed, I want to know youth's perspectives over serious cases such as mental illnesses and social problems.

Sure this book does talk about topic like the danger of self-harm, but it turns out to be slightly offensive.

"Suicidal and Cancerous

All the suicidal kids with all their cuts and pills no matter how hard they try they just can’t get it right because they were born to live All the cancerous kids with all their smiles and tears no matter how hard they try they just can’t get it right because they were born to die"

We cannot compare someone who wants to die with someone who physically sick. Truth is, everyone is born to die, the difference is on the process. The say that cancerous people is only going to die physically sickens me as if they cannot be cured, as if their lives are only consist of suffering and chemo, as if they don't deserve to have a life at all. Not so motivating, undoubtedly. Anyways, you all get what I mean.

And there's this poem that is about anorexic, I suppose:

"Beauty Did you ever wonder why in animals hip bones collar bones and rib cages being visible are thought of as sickly ugly and sometimes even abusive yet, in humans that is what we call beautiful" This is a..well, good? example of metaphorical sarcasm.

There's this another example that I sort of like:

"Shoot What is more powerful a thought, or a gun? a gun gives the opportunity but a thought pulls the trigger" But why this feels so familiar? Tumblr much?

And this.

"Poisoned You were addicted to her like alcohol every single day you drank her up. She was in your veins flowed through like blood. Then you decided to go sober."

And there's this weird one.

"Untitled 6 (for you) I miss how you would get upset when I smoked and how you would take my cigarette and tell me that my lungs and my voice were both too beautiful to be ruined and I miss how after that you would take the cigarette to your mouth and smoke it yourself I miss the day when you gave me a bottle of vodka instead of a bouquet of flowers to ask me to some stupid party and I miss how I could wake up with you next to me and not have to worry if tomorrow I would wake up alone or by your side truth is as much as I tell myself that it's the memories I miss it's actually you. I want you next to me again"

Taken away the cigarette but offering a vodka? OKAAAAAAYYYYY. Overall, most of the poems on this book are more like quotation when someone suddenly speaks wisely. It's the enter that makes them seem way longer and poetic but frankly...not really. So I need to warn you again that poetry is not about which word you have to hit enter afterward and write the next phrase below the previous phrase. BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT for duck's sake if a poetry is really about all of that, believe me I would have written 12928298000 books. No bullshit.

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