This poem is about stalking someone on Facebook and then meeting them for the first time, all the while dealing with attraction and the knowledge of everything that has been learned about them.
I really like the dreamy opening of the poem, how in the first three lines it starts off whimsical and poetic (“my thoughts wander freely”), and then by the fourth line gets right to the heart of what the poem is about: “I stalk your Facebook page.” This is very effective and gets the reader interested right away.
There is also repetition in the poem—“I know you”—that works really well, bringing the reader back inside the writer’s mind and back to all the things the writer knows about this person they have been stalking.
In the last half of the poem, it captures the essence of attraction. In the lines “I answer casually, Occasionally taking sips from my cup, Obeying the warnings in my head to stay cool,” the writer conveys that feeling of butterflies in the stomach that often accompanies talking to someone that is a love interest or a crush.
The only suggestion I would make for revision would be to make the last line stronger by leaving out the “I feel like” before the “I know you.” In the rest of the poem, the succinct, direct “I know you” works very well.
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