[Critique Group 1] Mary-Jo submission for Nest week

[Mary-Jo Lord]

Hi,

 

Here is my poem for next week. I'll paste it here and attach it since we
have issues with line breaks and stanzas.

 

That Song

 

CMary-Jo Lord

 

It was a country crossover that
I was indifferent to in the beginning, maybe even
liked, a little. Until it was
played continuously, everywhere on:
Country stations, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary, Hot AC, in
grocery stores, restaurants, the dentist's office.

 

It played on my clock radio at 6 a.m. on my
way to and from work, every
hour on the hour on the all hits all the time station. 




Every time I'd punch a preset, 
there it was like a stalker.
following me with its cloying, clingy, whiny, neediness Every
pathetic note stuck burrowed itself in my head like a tenacious migraine, an

infestation of daily life.
In the top ten on every chart imaginable for months.

 

Every time I'd hear a note I'd
want to explode, tear at my ears like a
child with an infection, muffle my
screams into a pillow and say, "make it stop!"

 

I wanted to call every radio station,
demand to be put on the air and announce 

"song, I need you to go away now.
Please give another song, any song a chance."

 

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