KimberlyR. 's "Random Impulse #6 make-up (week of January 30)" (Classmate Response Make-up)

http://ksrigsby90.blogspot.com/2011/03/random-impulse-6-make-up-week-of.html

I was saying "aww" the whole way through reading this poem.  All of the accounts of things the narrator and the ex-friend use to do together make me feel really sad for the narrator.  Reading parts like "the drink machine...softly mocks me" makes me feel like when the narrator goes certain places, she's (i'm guessing it's a female because she was "trying on dresses" and "[hunting for] cosmetics") thinking about her friend, and this causes her to think that everyone and everything else is thinking about her not being with her friend, too.  Another example of this is "the workers inside your favorite store ask /
why I'm alone."  The recollection the narrator has of all the fun times she's had with her ex-friend really makes me wonder what made their friendship end.  Her thinking the drink machine is "mocking" her seems like she could be feeling guilty, like maybe she did something wrong.  I really like the line breaks.  A line either contains a visual or an emotion.  This allows the reader to construct an image of the narrator and her friend having fun or a visual of the friendship's aftermath, and pair this with the way the narrator must feel now.  Awesome poem.