smoke and mirrors

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smokescreen

Author's Notes/Comments: 

There are times when a shape poem is called for. This one was originally published as "smokescreen."

 

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Brilliant! The structure

Brilliant!

 

The structure sharply illustrates the nerve-jangling, dead-end process suffered by anyone who has ever had the experience of interacting with an irrational, slippery control freak. You even listed, in ascending order of aggravation, some of the verbal abuser's favorite infuriating, mind-numbing tactics used to keep one ensnared in their juvenile labyrinth.  

 

Then realizing they just aren't worth our time and effort, you mock the lunacy with hilarious word play and bring the poem to an outrageously delightful, visual conclusion.

 

Spot on and thoroughly enjoyable.

 
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To have survived the

To have survived the labyrinth is often a mixed relief, there is scarring there that occasionally reminds one of the horrors. Thanks kindly for your kind response.


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