Heartbreaker
by
Meg Baird
I believe he was a good
man
once upon a time a fine
man
and there’s something
in his pictures
that I love
they were well matched
I can tell you
he was fun and she was feisty
what they did to hurt each
other
wasn’t nice
then he became a scapegoat
for his drunken ways and
foul mouth
though he ranted and he
roared
she’d found Al–Anon
and leaned upon the Lord
I’ve a lonely lonely
feeling
deep inside I search for
healing
Meg Baird can be
found in the ezine archives of Yellow Mama,
Twisted Sister, Anemone Sidecar, Open
Heart
Forgery, Apollo’s Lyre, and Prachya
Review, as well as the paper
publications Fluidity, CV2: Poetry Only,
Expressions, and Fourth Floor
Images. She enjoys performing in cafes, libraries, bars and special events.
Poetry, her own and that of others, has saved her life on more than one
occasion. Say no more!
W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of eight books
including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com). To
date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over a thousand of his paintings
and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.
