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Click here(One on the shed
one on the roof)
&
What drove him to it
he couldn't quite say
(one on the car
one on the front door
two on the satellite dish)
his mother & sister
crinkled their noses
(one on the garage)
& the kids at school
pointed their fingers
(one on the back lawn)
but he couldn't
seem to stop
(two on the remote)
so after the ruins
stopped smoking
(one on the driveway)
& after the cat
stopped squirming
(one on the backdoor)
they sent him packing
to the 2nd floor
where after much
deliberation
(two on the TV screen
staring back)
he finally began
to sleep again
(three on the bedroom mirror
three on the bathroom mirror)
still
(three on the porcelain)
in the end
(two on the linoleum
two on the drywall)
they could hardly
stop watching
(two on the carpet
two on the ceiling
two on the bricks
one on the counter
two on the glass
two on the pavement
two on the curb
one on the)
Very funny. It should be more like a mid alignment snapshot I think. Perhaps an alignment which is going south ...
What is particularly nice here is the sincupated rhythm with the imaginary monitors which appear initially every few lines, then at the end as in a crazed frenzy, they take over! I enjoyed the poem, thanks.