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.