Just trying to do an application, Age sexist, Just trying to place in my experience , They want no one with a life, J got pissed, Frustrated, And they gave me six red Errors! Well, Baby, I’m sixty-five, I can’t help your damn employment calender never seen two thousand, You don’t want experience, This poetsContinue reading “T-Mobile”
Category Archives: Pango
The sound
Heard when two parts click, Sliding perfectly onto place, Click, Silent to some, Those of us afraid to admit it, Not adult coloring books, Reason truth we love games, Puzzles, Yes, there I said it! In a perfect world, I would go about totting intricate, Colorful, Multi-faceted puzzles, Because the book seller, Lesbian poet IContinue reading “The sound”
Coming home
Nothing else matters, Even if I get upset, My homes nit yet on my.own land, In Sawyer County, Near where my granddad bought three hundred acres in the nineteen thirties, In Chipquamigan National Forest, Where my dad and baby sisters remains rest, Where the heavens gently kisses the surface of Cub Lake, My first fictionContinue reading “Coming home”
Saw a guy
A.local guy, At home in our local diner, He is older now, He is greyer now, The organist at my parent’s Lutheran Church, Saint John’s, His mannerisms are the same, He sat alone, Weight on his soldiers, Sunday in Waukon ,Iowa, The dinner the S&D, Pat Zidlicky my older.sister and me, I love her deeply,Continue reading “Saw a guy”
Ɓook seller
Sold one today, Paperback, One of three, by Tamora Pierce, Most of what I have of hers are hard cover, Not all on line, I usually read before I post, The buyer wants me to find then photograph inside cover, She’s a collection, Says been looking for years for particular onces or series, Paperbacks neverContinue reading “Ɓook seller”
Just asked
If I was me! Been me since the wee hours of March tenth Nineteen fifty-eigth, Born to Leon Norbert Heike and Marian D.Bittenger Heike, their eldest of Laurense Iowa at Storm Lake ,Iowa Hospital, Children of Paul John Andrew Heike and Agness Kleeman Heike of Shawno,Wisconsin and Clarence Ward Bittenger and Henrietta Starkey Bittenger ofContinue reading “Just asked”
Garage
After work, Three am, Iowa’s still too frosty to sleep in one’s car, So she puts the car into reverse, Pulls out of Mercy One’s parking garage, Homeward bound, The HR at the Catholic hospital pays this hardworking sixty year old exactly what high school boys get paid on their first job at Micky Dee’s!Continue reading “Garage”
2 dam big
Fifty pounds of cat food, Drug to front seat floor of car, Grabbed , Totted, Stuck upside down in front seat floor, March seventeenth to damn cold, Nothing to put it in, Slept all afternoon, No desire to go out in twenty -five degrees, Make repeated climbs up and down with bucket, All cat foodContinue reading “2 dam big”
Rain yesterday
Froze last night, Lite dusting of snow, Plows out at dawn, Below zero, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, Hope it’s nicer Sunday, Pat and I will go to Waukon,Iowa, My home town, The best Saint Patty’s Day parade ever, Will be last I ever see with Pat, Patricia is moving to Twin Cities, Eric, one ofContinue reading “Rain yesterday”
Love LinkedIn why? For sinthicated thought, Not seeking employment, Poet/writer/podcast, Empath, No more lies will I tolerate! Yes, there are five thousand jobs in Quasqueton,Iowa, We have less then five hundred people, My field is hispitality, No longer do food service, Or housekeeping, Lien Delivery, Maintenance or janitor, Mandatory and I have parted company, I’mContinue reading “Linkedin”