Resolution

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and now
artfully
done

well it would have been an easy 100

*****

Five.

Sharp

Poignant without being over bearing. A clear charachter portrait. Excellent.

I love this

and it hits home. I would only question your use of punctuation, making sentences that aren't sentences. But it's just a quibble. 5

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Don't agree with Friday about the puntuation. It helps the emphasis. Not so sure about the change of tense though. Altogether a good 'observational' piece

Like Fridayam, this hit close to home. I particularly liked the diminishing feet in the last 4 lines of the last stanza, the lessening of the prior noise from "unholy matrimony," reduced to the silence and peace of being "alone." I'm not sure if you intended that (although I suspect you did), and having experienced what you describe, it resonated for me.

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a comment on Ang's comment. Use fishwife as often as you like.
if you change it I will think of you as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishwife
you wouldn't want that.
well would have been 100 if I could vote.