Tipping the Scale
You ask me to forgive,
take you back.
Well, let’s see —
I forgave unfaithfulness
took you back twice
tolerated drunkenness
your failure to keep a job.
But this last time
you crossed a line.
You stole from me —
Joplin’s Pearl
Bill Evans’ Waltz for Debby
Coltrane’s Blue Train.
Forgive you? Yes.
Take you back? Never in a million years.
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Joplin, Evans and Coltrane stolen? Where are the thumbscrews? The rack?
Fantastic, Mary! Wonderfully concise, witty and true.
I really like the “well, let’s see” — this speaker is going to consider carefully, not jump hastily to act. But the conclusion comes across as certain.
Mary – I can just hear you reading this! Nice turn at the betrayal!
I love this, Mary! Great title, forecasting the coming theft of music.
Wow! I hadn’t thought of that. Good eye you have.
A fiery and just verdict ! Hands off records.