ROUGHING IT
We hit the tip of the iceberg
Like Titanic, started to drown,
We managed to stay a floating…
When most of our entertainment went down.
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We managed to pay the electric
And the rent, so we have a home,
But Cable was lost at the end of the month…
No more TV, internet…or phone!
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The post-dated check should reach them,
In time for a mid-month restart…
Entertaining ourselves in the darkness
Is almost a forgotten art.
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Yes, we could do THAT, if we wanted,
But how about the rest of the time…
An evening goes slow without TV shows
About the reruns of which we can whine.
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My wife sees better with new glasses,
And I have interests in which to dabble…
I’m not much for cards, but what passes
For fun—-we break out the SCRABBLE*.
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We discovered how to play CD’s
On the computer Media Player…
And cleaned the off battery contacts,
To find daytime radio fare.
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In the Community Room and at work,
I have some access to “this”…
But at home with less to do
We’ve got more time to kiss!
–Jonathan Caswell
NOTE*: SCRABBLE is a word game with letter tiles on a board to make interconnecting words for points.
By the Mighty Mumford 