02-08-2013, 07:01 PM
What I liked about this poem is that it makes you think all the violence you see on TV isn't a new phenomenum, that its a reflection rather than the cause of what has always been around us. That being the taste for macabre is innate in us all- the little boy who likes to kill little critters or the more gory ones. And similarly the audience- whether its the boy testing his toes in hot water or those attuned to more graphic stuff. Very clever poem. I thought one line is missing from the end. Or maybe it's good it leaves you wanting more.