"Shut the Damn Screen Door!"
Weekly Writing Prompt (prompt words in red) from
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It was only almost open,
or I guess you could say it was almost closed,
but to listen to her you’d expect
to see a gaping screen door,
hanging by its hinges,
“trashing up the neighborhood,”
as she was wont to say
in one of the mean ways I grew to know
from her night-drunk moods
too easy to define as part of my family history,
that of “trashing up the neighborhood,”
which will be my parting shot
as I walk out that door the last time,
leaving it open.
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Well the screen door was the final straw I am afraid! The split had come some time by the sound of it. Good tale.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought, the narrator was just waiting to either come of age to leave, or save up the money to go. I don't expect he or she will be back to visit soon!
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