Midas Comments

This is an aptly desolate poem about the man who had everything but really nothing. Your language shines with vividness despite the desolation it reveals, but of course that's Midas's desolation - you the poet can summon all the wondrous treasures of the word. I like this couplet HE BOUGHT PALACES AND ARMIES / HE MADE WARS AND THREW PARTIES. I like the opposition between the two items in each sentence. It shows how ridiculous his life had become. And the shock of realization that hits you with the reference to his son as THE GOLDEN BOY. WOW That stings! .