This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2014-09-05 11:04:16 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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                                                                                      and I know a place where a royal flush,                                                                                  can never beat a pair.                                                                                                                 Tom Waits                                                                 you threw a fit because your video team                                                                 is hitting .206, and is better than that.                                                                  this is the dismal end of everything,                                                                 the denouement of your malcontent.                                                                your wife pops in, like gas on gunpowder, lit.                                                                 “what would our life be like if you gave a shit?”                                                                she says, with a pestle’s pointed wit.                                                                 then it’s off to bed with your 10 year old,                                                                whose brother ghosted him – can’t sleep alone.                                                                 who said life imitated art, or was even fair?                                                                home is a place for those who are never there. 

Copyright © September 2014 Mark Steven Scheffer


This Poem was Critiqued By: Marcia L McCaslin On Date: 2014-09-26 01:41:21
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
This is you, giving us short (clever) clips into your thought processes. I like the speed and how you point the reader, here, then there, then over here. "Your wife pops in, like gas on gunpowder, lit." Wow, what a line THAT is. After I read that, I didn't care what came before it or after it. But you've managed to cram a lot of uneasiness into a few short lines, and I think it takes a real artist to do that! I enjoyed.


This Poem was Critiqued By: DeniMari Z. On Date: 2014-09-16 13:57:42
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
I enjoy the message in this - the strength comes with words - i.e. "Familiarity breeds contempt" yet the touch of love added - to be the protector of home, health and well-being of others comes with a lot of compromises - to keep a home - Away from home allows a person alone in the world without all of the static left at home and can feel so peaceful in itself - but at the end of the day no one coined it better than the character in the Wizard of Oz - "There's no place like home" - which can really have two meanings if you put thought to it - good poem, Deni
This Poem was Critiqued By: Joe Gustin On Date: 2014-09-13 13:13:22
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Excellent write esp s2. Loss of people, of love, loss of independence rings loud and clear. Well done
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