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Lose the "keystyle", it was awful.
The topical was half decent, you touched on some interesting expressions, but I also think you were lucky for this piece. If you understand, a poem like this has been done a thousand times, from the perspective of all involved; the soldier, his family, the enemy, etc, I think I've ever seen it from the perspective of a gun and a bullet lol, but you have to admit that this isn't a new topic to base something on, so a lot of what you say has already been said.
The reason I think your lucky is because the things you touched on, such as wanting the salad, were really good I think but I also think you just used them because they rhymed. Forgive me if not, but from the rest of the piece, I think the salad line stood out because of the line that preceeded it about a green land and savaged waste. If you would have elaborated on certain aspects here, then it would have been a tidy little piece, but it was so sudden and everytime you mentioned something you were off on about something else. It was all concepts bunched together and you never stuck on anything, if you've gonna create a war story you have to at least come across like you've thought about stuff and use something that is emotive and sounds good, this piece lacked emotion. It looks like you have only just taken up writing, which is good and I cant hate this for that, but there are certain aspects you need to improve upon.
If the ending is supposed to be a cliffhanger, then you need to lose it because it doesn't fit with the rest of the piece.
Return the favour with mine bro,
<-- Anna Maria