It could be seen that way as well. 🙂 I make my works very open to interpretation.

I enjoyed reading this. I sense intense infatuation or a crush based on the last lines. I’m also getting some masochistic vibes. Like your infatuation has put you at their mercy, and you derive pleasure from that. I may be wrong, but that’s the interpretation I got.

Thank you for reading it! You have no idea how long I have been waiting to fit "Quid Pro Quo" in a poem. Lol. It's been jangling around in my head as I play with words to rhyme with and I could never get it to fit... Till today. Ha ha. 

Forgive me. My creative process is a bit strange.

Enjoyable read. Respect for fitting “quid pro quo” into a poem without it feeling forced. I also like the conflicting thoughts approach. Nice work.

Yes! You got it. This is about Parasocial Relationships and how we are addicted to it to the point of personal destruction, mutually because, yes; the creators are just as desperate. 

I'll think a little more about the end of your comment. I feel like I can explore this piece a little further. I'll update if I can enhance it further. 

Thank you for giving me a read and the advice!

The picture of carefully crafted intimacy you have built with just a short amount of words here is very skilled. I'm assuming this is around the current times of parasocial culture: people flocking to seductive strangers for validation and feeling wanted and vice versa, which does create a perpetuation of acting a certain way to get a certain effect out of the other person in those exchanges (i.e. paying of the creator/personalization of content). But I like that you are alluding to the fact that the creator of this content is just as desperate and dependent for this relationship, for monetary reasons.

I implore you to think of how you can include more between "Even though, I don’t know you." and your ending for a few more lines, further exploring the relationship between these characters, building up to those punctuating statements that I consider to be a very strong ending. It feels a little abrupt to me at present. My first thoughts go to building a small scene like noticing their 

It's quite a fascinating read. Normally I have a very strong preference for strict stucture and rhyme schemes, but here I don't mind the more free flowing nature of the poem.

One gripe I do have with this is - I'm not sure what you want to say. I don't mind that your work is open to interprutation, at the end of the day you can force any text to mean a thousand different things if you want to - but I feel like perhaps this piece was left a bit too open.


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I’m nothing to you unless I have something for you. 

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Quid Pro Quo, I go where you want me to go. 

Show me more, I’ll show you what you want me to show. 

&amp;#x200B;

I’ll go with the flow as long as you hand out the dough. 

&amp;#x200B;

Even though,

I don’t know you. 

&amp;#x200B;

I might just…

Say it low and slow so you can,

Focus. 

&amp;#x200B;

On Me. 

&amp;#x200B;

Flirting. 

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with you.

&amp;#x200B;

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