Val’s Prayer hotline

Boy, that fifty for the lawn mower keeps slipping ylthrough mymfibgers, Now I have to go to Oelwein,Iowa, To get something from Penny’s mom’s apartment, No one knows.where it is, Penny’s mom went out with her dog.at 2am, Fell , They think she laid there fifteen minutes, Hip us not broke, They did a reparativeContinue reading “Val’s Prayer hotline”

Tears get in this poet’s eyes,

The other day, she said the sillies thing, I’ll have to coach you in how to get the girls’ number, I got Ruth’s number, I don’t want another number, You asked how I always get the wrong woman, Because the one I sought, Night time’s on the other end of my ear, My heart’s stuck,Continue reading “Tears get in this poet’s eyes,”

Sixty-five now will go to fifty-six

Nine forty-five pm, Time to turn off fans, Grab a Hershey bar, Look again for missing kitten, Ruth in Sun City is just sitting down to supper, Its neatly eight there, Atill not cooling off enough at night so the so the.big cactus can b reak ir.jusr has to die, Extinqutions a bitch,

My day

August 1st,2023 Break time: today old oranges and only one lemon. The lemon for my tea.Only one orange was eatable. Rest of a package grahm crackers. While I swat at flies. Need about two packs of the darn things.No silly not flies strips. I have poop to collect, sheets in kitten pens to change mightContinue reading “My day”

Barely recall

Sleep without ‘Yowl!’ Not rising st four, Some bastard black and white,a simese and an all white cat yowling for food! Or the words of their.owner telling.me she coukd not live as poor as I was, Funny that I was wealthy enough to go home and get food at my favorite Food bank, I hadContinue reading “Barely recall”

Fell asleep

Four to eight hours, Just jibber jabbering, Adopted sistet and me, Last night while Ruth colored, Heat and sweating caught me unawares, I fell aslerp three.times, She.had.called.me.at.seven, Off to sleep, she was, A lawyet had called, She stayed.talking to me Just.a Val, Just a poet, She.says I rold you about.my.laesuit didn’t U, I said no,Continue reading “Fell asleep”

Ruth and Susan,

Sisters mine, Better than friends,7 Both with cancer, Talk all night to Ruth, Priceless timeRuth seventy-one she calls me kid, Susan calls me sister, Penny youngest adopted sister, Ruth I talk to when I need thought, known less then two years, Feel I have had her in my life for years, Susan a lover ofContinue reading “Ruth and Susan,”

Melody Carlson

One of my favorite writers, Always her books are like ingridients for a better day, Melody always puts a pinch of her god in her stories, Wonderful writer full of wonder, Her Christmas books fill me with warmth, Not like Iowa’s summer heat, Which fills my skin with salt, I had not heard until tonight,Continue reading “Melody Carlson”

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