Death Sentence
Sometimes I'm floored to hear
my eldest daughter frontload
her sentence with the time bomb:
"When you die..." That clause
causes me to slide off the icy road
till I, clinging to a rulebook pause,
mentally insert the comma after "die"
and travel back along the pitch
and marrow of her statement's
true intent: a passing thought
about my passing, not a plot
speeding up the period.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XAXB ABAX XAAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 368 |
Words | 68 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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