Everything I ever suspected about poetry

Real life correspondence between one poet (me) and another:

ASH Smyth: Heh. Classic title. I like the shape of the narrative, how it twists back and forth between who's fucking things up at any given moment: and yes, how neatly observed that a guy would say 'your negativity is ruining your idea of love' and then proceed to ruin it himself in the time-honoured fashion... The idea that a girl suggests the fling and the guy wants the 'true love' scenario is also a nice reversal of the usual trends.

AN Other: Thanks for the comment. Interesting analysis.. wouldn't have known it could be analysed like that actually.. thanks