one hundred ways to play solitaire

he reads the saturday evening post
has coffee with her ghost
they used to say every single night
"if your heart stops, so does mine"
he sits in his favorite chair
one hundred ways to play solitaire

Reviews

[Enigma Monster]

I love the simple, heartfelt love and loneliness of this poem. It struck me.

[Alessander]

This is very doric. Austere, but with an underlying tension and loneliness, almost like a Hopper painting.

One editorial note. "used"?

Impressed. Lot of other peeps write 4pg confessional crap.

This reveals a lot more in 6 lines.

[mercy party]

Thank you Alessander, i am glad you can appreciate the structure and sentiment of this. Thanks for looking out on the typo, past tense always gets me.

[mercy party]

Also, your comparison to a Hopper painting is so perfect and surfaced a great deal of emotion for me. It does have a feel of Automat and is very Eleven AM. Thanks man!