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Britt,

It's interesting that you bring this up. I sometimes get similar comments about some of my poetry. My initial response is that the use of understatement can be a powerful way to express emotion. I think the poem is packed with emotion if you read it carefully. Yet I wonder if the emotion is inside me only and not in the poem.

To answer your question, I don't particularly like reading about torrents of tears and other cliched expressions of emotion. Throwing chairs around might be interesting if it's original as would some original way of expressing torrents of tears, but garden variety torrents of tears is way overdone, imo.

Marcia

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