Jackie Haas: The Husband Hacker

An Impulsive or Premeditated Poem — Who’ll Ever Know?

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Jackie Haas alone in a cold prison cell,
deafening silences; her new kind of hell.

Sentenced to life —
for causing pain and strife
to all the family he left behind,
on the day being sleep-deprived; ruled her mind.

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They said: Since they married, she would moan
about his lack of decent manners, often shown.

He snored, he farted, he burped and bellowed out loud,
that all too often she imagined — his burial shroud.
A lack of sleep fueled her anger over time,
with hate for him — that would climb and climb.

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Jackie Haas simply became
an enraged woman — never again, the same.

Simply because he made a crazy din
when his footie team on telly did win —
as she lay next to him, trying to sleep,
counting too many bouncing black sheep.