kitbag
particle, speck, fragment, scrap, crumb, grain, morsel, / shred, dash, drop, pinch, soupçon, jot, iota, whit, / atom, smattering, scintilla, hint, suggestion, tinge, / / a modicum of good works, / my endeavor, to serve and deliver, / man's bounty of good words / from my kitbag, / fresh, hot, n' crusty / just like me.... / / Hello Poetry!
many, many memberships have I,
to great institutions, large and small,
though I oft have an extra shopping
bag secreted in my coat pockets just
in case….I spot a tiny sized bargain
but Costco has ruled me ineligible,
unable / unwilling to let me enter,
for I do not possess their
le carte d’identite necessaire…
oh they would let me in, if I
ante’d up the fee, but,
between you and me,
but what’s the point?
living in a pint sized
a/k/a my studio nyc apartment,
there is no space large
enough to accommodate
their supersized inventory
of 24 paper towel rolls,
one doubled sized cereal boxes
that that won’t fit my cabinet,
or take up an entire shelf,
and where gallons and megs~packs
are seldom heard, crying out
“I’m lonely, buy me, buy me!,
I long for lots of company!”
B U T
I voyage on the Amazon
where they accommodate
we little people in little houses,
like an old woman who lived^
in a shoe, so many poems in
my head, there just isn’t room
for a whole lot of
much else
Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM UTC
Trice…A brief period of time: As a noun, "trice" means a very short time, or an instant. It is most often used in the phrase "in a trice," which means "very quickly" or "in a flash".
Example: "She'll be ready in a trice".
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my liefs:
have roamed the countryside closer to a century,
except in places
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
(vintage 1870’s poem from Kansas)
has ever been heard,
"She'll be ready in a trice"
bespoke
it could be localized,
thus the health authorities
should be able to contain it,
in a trice?
the treasurer of kept words,
confirms its usage since 1800
has declined dramatically
but as of yet, never full eradicated,
{espy below}
but in fact its origin as a sailor’s terminology,
which most likely, explains,
it’s absence
from the tongues of proper folk,
while most recent outbreak
was spotted (outlined, envision, striped?)
in Illo’noise
I do not sense an urgent demand,
for the phrase’s resuscitation,
as long as good middle class mouths yet say,
”she’ll be down in a jiffy”
which properly has caused great nervousness
among many the visages of many a young lad of recent vintage,
on prom nights throughout the land,
as no one knows what a jiffy is,
(inacondom, conundrum?)
especially when slang
is busy updating,
this quaint dialectical
of “American”
of mostly stolen words
from other well spoken thieving places
would you fancy you a cuppa “tay”
while deliberating this new found piece
of knowledge
[see below below and yes,
mispronounced by trillions of westerners]
while pondering this e~scripture,
it will be ready most nice in a
jiffy of trice…
the work of the kitbag is never done…sigh
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM UTC
~for the divine Miz Patty m.~
here in our scriptural rental storage unit ($25/month),
lay many a note, not specifically addressed,
but the generation that calls us grande and grandees,
will know, instant comprehend that what was herein
inscribed was intensifying insided for their eyes only…
you, are eye dropper eavesdroppers, on semi-private
conversations, willing testaments to all we’ve seen,
notable thoughts we lived by and aspired to, too, two,
lessons in the laws of poetry most applicable to living
life every day, minimizing the flora of deception,
valuing the truth detoothed and raw, the coverups
easily pierced, more for ease of entry than disguised
mirroring, keyed to be easy unlockable,
but it is a more precisely
a donation,
with a deductible status.
each line a deduction of ourselves,
each belle lettered word, a donation,
that will keep well,
even if unattended,
unfed, unwatered,*
and yet,
dare it not tarnish,
even withouts sparkle, or nary a sun star shining,
for each be blessed with
a coating of
impermeable anti-aging,
the invisible ink of loving
~
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM UTC
Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5
“I took great pains to study and ’tis poetical
brevity, a/k/a/ Shakespeare
Nov 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM UTC
Sherlock Holmes once said, “It is a capital mistake to theorize
before one has data.”
~~~~~~
guilty;
news headline, opinion formed,
apply labels as needed,
once seeded,
irretractable
so retractions ignored,
once formed - it’s permanence establishmentarian
first reading meh
second reading:mmm
third reading: this could be something,
fourth reading: whoa, wow!
guilty, guilty
X years of imprisonment
for bad judgement,
Nov 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM UTC
No?
too-bad for you,
I do
and it makes me so happy every time
it happens again.
and I bid
it welcome old friend,
and the smile curves up from chin to eyebrows,
everything is turned up
and that folks,
is all she wrote…
nml
Oct 19, 2025
Oct 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM UTC
does the darjeeling settle at the poem bottom,
drifting, dropping to the base, falling from
the letters above, struggling to defy gravity,
how would you know, into my tummy go
30+ ounces of caribbean dark aromatic
coffee, tinged with mocha forming
skim milk, ccs, recorded and ordered
for final disbursement
both darjeeling and I, have r~aged older,
my poetry advances in a different track,
the tea will be drained, and the poet
regardless of position let new ones
puddle, huddling, sating the cup's bottom
awaiting further instructions, most likely
drain dying riverdrops, almagamating,
ready to shower the seekers nearby,
Sep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM UTC
simmer or roast,
your only two choices,
you can’t order in,
it’s a sin,
don’t give me that ai, ai, yai sh^t,
why not, you say, winking like
it’s totally cool,
what it is
worse than plagiarism,
you might as well
get cooked in hell🔥
Jul 28, 2025
Jul 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM UTC