Midnight Poetry: “what annoys me about mr. death”
what annoys me about mr. death
(Casey Quinn)
is that you get
handed this deck
asked to build
a house
one card at a time
a degree
a career
a mortgage
a family
and when you finally
build the roof
on top of the foundation
he stops by
(without even so much
as a house warming gift)
and knocks it over.
(Casey Quinn writes prose and poetry. His first poetry chapbook Snapshots of Life was released by Salvatore Publishing and is available on Amazon. His second chapbook Prepare to Crash will be released in 2009 by Big Table Publishing. In his free time he edits the online magazine Short Story Library.)
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AuthorScoop
November 10th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Ha! Isn’t that just the case.