Comments | ophelivia: Analysis of "Gray Girl" for Pink Siamese

ophelivia

Analysis of "Gray Girl" for Pink Siamese

Aug 30, 2008 18:05

Ok this turned into one hell of a rant. Pink asked me to comment on my poem "Gray Girl" If anyone needs a refresher, the poem is posted here

I wrote Gray Girl when I was fifteen in my sophmore year of high school and it's one of the few pieces that has no "half life" for me. You know that thing where you write something and at the time you think it' ( Read more... )

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sunsetdawn20 August 29 2008, 22:23:00 UTC

Only two things: 1. *cuddles* 2. I can totally imagine Tim Burton to be fascinated by it. :):)

ophelivia August 29 2008, 22:35:56 UTC

He's one of my main influences as a writer, for this piece especially. When I can find a fanmail address i'm so going to do it

pink_siamese August 30 2008, 02:24:16 UTC

Wow ( ... )

spookyfbi August 30 2008, 14:09:38 UTC

Oh my God, that poem gave me goosebumps! And I could so imagine TB doing a short film from it! And even though it was written by a girl, I could imagine a guy narating it (*cough Johnny Depp *cough* :P) But it would be so awesome, with the way Tim plays with colour and black & white (I just watched Pleasantville so I was imagining that kind of look as I read it. Even though he didn't do Pleasantville...)
And yeah, high school sucks. Inflicting it on children should be considered an act of child abuse. It's like a well known fact that high school = torture, and yet every kid has to go through it. Hello? Does not compute!