Trouble was a big black dog who one day came home with.me, I was five, No one in Laurense Iowa knew my young dog names trouble, He was just the kind of best friend a little girl needed, He made me laugh, Sometimes, that is a best friend, which is the best gift, He allowedContinue reading “Trouble”
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Tears in my throat
Words vaporize, The last word is like the box last sought, Treasures are rare , When found you want to whisk away place deep in your pocket, so they never fall out, That’s where I keep you, In that pocket full of laughs and moments, Following behind you , Enjoy your week,
Discouraged
Not perfect, Just me, Made to feel stupid, Just asked if an application could be picked up for me, Was told no one does applying that way any longer, Maybe I chose friends wrongly, Maybe I trust without discrimination, Maybe pieces should never be friends, Are we all so pointless, Are we all irrelevant? ThenContinue reading “Discouraged”
T-Mobile
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”
Kitty litter
Two days late, One hundred and twenty pounds, Like verizon could not function to find Quasqueton,Iowa, Walmart, how funny and sad you have been here before, I recueved two texts, Telling me you were on the way, Goggle maps knows the way! Where’s the Monties? In Canada silly! They could find my front poech!
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”
Val Whitewolf 