Jennie
Saturday 21st June 2014 9:11pm [Edited]
2,767 posts
OK, fine. I deal with unpleasant things for a living so think I am pretty hardened to that kind of thing.
However, I do not wish to read fairly graphic accounts of child sex abuse/suicide/infanticide.
As a general rule, I think the offensiveness of the subject matter should be proportionate to the quality of the piece of work.
If you are going to write something I am going to find grotesque, you need to give me a damn good reason to read it or I am not going to leave with a positive feeling about your work.
I would try and work out why you are writing about those kind of subjects. What drives you to explore this type of thing and what do you seek to achieve by doing it?
I also agree that the rhymes were a bit laboured. But it is the subject matter that was the real problem for me.