I'd kiss you, but you know it'd be gently through the door

I wish there was a button to check for ambiguity in my work.

I find language beautiful. I long to hear beautiful prose, the way words can be strung together to communicate a narrative.
... And yet I've been getting slammed for it. Not because of the words I use (for the most part), but because of the embellishment.

Every few weeks I fight back tears as I hear the same comment over and over- what is going on here? I drown myself in ways to express scenarios in wrapped images, much like giftwrap. It's a beautiful outside, but the inside is very concrete. That's what my poetry has been lately- a bunch of giftwrap to cover up what is really at the heart- the present itself, in plain sight, no decoration.

So I gotta toss that paper away, and fast. So long codework.
I'm wanting to get to these presents just as much as you do.

[If You Can't See My Mirrors- The New Pornographers]