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Poem of the Week

Yes Dear!

September 6, 2010

Sitting in wooden closet,
dialing home to hear
the happiness of life,
instead I get an angry wife,
the happy life has boiled
over into an eternal Ground
Hog day and makes her wish
that her life was over,
sighing deeply,
fighting the tide of angry
angry retorts and spite,
of rocket launches and
deadly strikes,
what else could the sad sack
soldier say, but
Yes Dear and sigh again,
cause sometimes the
true war is at home
and they don’t need bombs
lobbed from someone
sitting in a wooden closet,
so yes dear,
is his credo ‘cause
his wife is a hero, faces
bickering badgers her children,
cuts and boo-boos,
mountains of laundry,
plethora of repairs and bills,
she’s there for it all,
even lonely birthdays and anniversaries,
she smiles through it all,
even as the dam threatens to break
so sitting in my little closet,
far, far awaY
I say yes dear,
until my throat dries up
even as
my head nods off my neck,
yes dear!

By Terry Hamel

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