My gracious <br />Just look where the time has gone <br />I’ve been up all night long reading her suicidal letters <br />Narcissistically composed while eating a bottle of No Dose <br />And staring at her naked body <br />Every other minute or so in the mirror above her death bed <br />As she peered down the barrel of an unregistered thirty eight <br />Left to her by her ex-lover and the husband she never had <br />Just in case she needed to protect herself from men <br />Who would intentionally cause her harm <br />Because they didn’t understand <br />What she wanted from them <br />Love and affection for her afflictions… <br />Now she demands that I pay her some attention <br />By pointing a gun to her head <br />She writes X marks the spot.... <br /> <br /> <br />2007 © T Sheridan<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/x-marks-the-spot-5/
