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747 · Sep 2
Head scratcher...
Drab Sep 2
"no sugar tonight in my coffee, no sugar tonight in my tea"

Guess Who?
Do,  re,  me.....

B. Cummings I love you!!!!!
Drab Oct 9
I’m done.
Time to quit.
No more lessons.
No more books.
No more people.
With ***** looks.

I’m out, forever.

Let Him Sort Them Out Later

NOTE – Hey Alice!

#cooper
HOLLOWEEN
Drab Sep 4
Think of TIME.
As a line.
Going from left to right……
Arrows on the tips,
Never reaching the end, it flips..

And I’m a line
Going up and down through time.
An arrow at the bottom of that line.
Now you know where I’m headed if I don’t turn around.
09/04/24 – POV – a circle actually. Can lines curve?….or turn around? I need a drink……
Drab Oct 14
The edge.

Not the ledge.
The edge.
Something so sought after,
Yet elusive.

It boggles…..
The mind.
Toggles…..
The senses.

If you fall over.
It breaks
Into little pieces.
Of happiness.
And slumber
Note - I need a short break.

Are you afraid of heights?
472 · Oct 7
Epithaknees x seven
Drab Oct 7
The secret of getting along with everybody.

1. Don’t let them get to know you.
1.1.  Wait a minute. I thought of number 9.
2. Two
3. See the last digit of PI.
4. Study them.
5. Stay away.
* Run away
6. * Don’t touch "them/they" (some exceptions may apply).
7. * Repeat whatever didn’t work.

* Don't
notation - the act of notating....
471 · Aug 28
Vern’s Best Friend
Drab Aug 28
Been thinking a lot about Jim today.
Miss him bad, he slipped away.
Cerritos autos had it when all is said and done.
He is my hero, but not the only one.

Know what I mean?
RIP J. Varney
392 · Sep 8
Oceans 13 revisted.
Drab Sep 8
The tide has turned.
So did I.
I missed it.
9824 or somewhere around there. Just pick a number....
343 · Sep 5
How?
Drab Sep 5
"to ride a painted pony wild"

And to be a native of YOUR country.
Note enough - Cheers to B. Taupin and the other guy..
321 · Sep 23
Not Abusive
Drab Sep 23
I love being dopamized.
I love being endorphinized too.
But I simply adore, feeling good.
Note = laughing now
302 · Sep 13
Taking Responsibility
Drab Sep 13
I take the blame for all I have caused.
I take the blame for all I have thought.
I take the blame for everything.
Responsibility?
Almost, except for what others have done.


NOTE – just sayin ....Friday, September 13th a day that will live in infamy.....

#blame #responsibility #difference

RIP NYC Council?
NOTE – WARNING: consider the source, always. Checked for bias, guilty....me.
285 · Aug 16
The Wrong One
Drab Aug 16
A caterpillar inched up a smooth hairy stem
A spray of insecticide wasn’t meant for him
He writhed and he squealed as some caterpillars do
When given a poison that’s not meant for you.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
272 · Sep 5
Sell Fish or Selfish?
Drab Sep 5
I just do what I want to do.
To someone else’s chagrin.
Wish they would just frigging leave me alone.
So I can be with Him.
Notes – just sayin.................the date...9524 hike!

Once again, another version of Hai-coo. It's an 5-7-7-10-5 (includes title).
258 · Sep 27
Untitled
Drab Sep 27
“In the year, 2525”.
If “IT” is still alive.
How would I have survived?
I think I just would have become part of the giant blob…
That is currently called “something I don’t get”…….
NOTE - the dark years, full speed ahead captain......2024......
252 · Aug 22
Oxyoptimist
Drab Aug 22
"Life is an endless series of obstacles
designed to crush"
author - LIFE
Drab Oct 3
What are the rules?
I want them to be less conspicuous.
You know.
Out of direct sight?
Anonymously?
Perhaps a bit ambiguous,
Or behind a green door.
But Marilyn didn’t care.
In the end.
NOTES - memories

"The more you read it, the dumber it sounds"......another version of a 60's commercial..

Did this ever happen to you?
238 · Sep 13
stunning
Drab Sep 13
I just got kicked out.
Of a place that I belonged.
A place where I felt safe.
A place where I was left alone.

#overmyshoulder #planet #earth
no
222 · Aug 25
Salt of the Earth
Drab Aug 25
Here lies what is left.
There lies what will be.
I lie down and hope I don’t croak.
Saturday, August 24th, 2024
Drab Oct 6
I don’t have much.
A little abode in a field of vegetables.
Like life.
A (very) small pension called Social Security?
It is a humble end.
To a life forgotten by many.
But I use this to my advantage.
As I wait for the end.
Patiently.
NOTES - YUP
Drab Aug 31
It comes around mostly at nite.
My fear goes up, it's flight or fight.
I am too small, so give up the fists.
I am too big, to cry the mist.
For whenever it, is, it will find me soon.
I need to leave, or destroy the moon.
08/31/24 - Muuuuuuuhaaaaahaaaaahaaaaa.....Happy early Holloween!!!@! HINT - didn't want to get too graphic...;o/
209 · Sep 27
The Guardian Circle
Drab Sep 27
It stops all who try to pass.
It passes everybody by taking the "good" gateway.
I can't see my poems.
I can't see our poems.
But we persevere to the end.
And I just got here????

What in the darnation is that?
NOTE - Really need some sunshine here....it's gloomy....
205 · Oct 25
"Adult" Poem?
Drab Oct 25
OK.
Shhhhhh.
I’m going to tell you.
It’s about…………..

Suh..
Suh..
***.

Donut’s do it!
Call me immediately!
Jim!!!
It’s your life, guardian ******…..
Notes - think a, round,  object, a dot and your toilet. If you are above the
eauate - or, or, the sensation, will change to the opposite direction.
203 · Sep 25
Bad Behavior - times two
Drab Sep 25
When, I stop doing bad behavior,
I become honest.
When I stop beating around the bush,
I become direct.
People don’t like me either way.
So, I just mind my own business.
Except for now……
when I write this stuff......

NOTE – NOTE

#self
NOTE - NOTE
190 · Sep 17
boom
Drab Sep 17
The day was cold.

It wasn’t “just right”.

Suddenly a flash.

We had been warned.
It’s a thermo-nuclear-coupler, that tripped.
They are all gone now…
NOTE – just put the TNC in there, to see if people even pay attention….

You Awake?
Drab Oct 22
At first, it was for information.

Then, it was for nothing.

Then, it was for the most sinister, cunning, baffling, dare I say, powerful?

Influencer?

My GOD.

What’s next?

The lord said, sadly, in shame, hanging his head
………….it’s entertainment.

The people, all of them.

Followed.
166 · Oct 18
Decision
Drab Oct 18
I see people as they appear on the surface.
I see people as they appear in my mind.
It’s not accurate, ever.
Neither one.
Better to give the benefit of the doubt….
Unless you are wrong.
163 · Sep 8
Justice Personified
Drab Sep 8
Forgiveness,
Faith.
Kindness.
Empathy.
Hate
Revenge.

I'd like the jury to disregard the witnesses' previous testimony.
It did not happen!
NOTES - Yes it did....
162 · Sep 11
the shadow
Drab Sep 11
Whether it's a zero
Or a one,
I can complicate the heck out of things.

It's what I do.
It's my, vocation.
It's all I have.

I cannot think.
I can only process
And give you MY answer.

aaannnnnnnd............remember..........everything.....­.as I see fit
Drab Sep 29
I love the way the wooden people talk.
They carve themselves into intellectual corners…
That are un-sanded.
Rough.
And many times,
Useless.

Yet they are experts at everything that involves my business?

Strange Days….
Strange Days, #snakeeyes #2024
151 · Sep 25
The Cyclops' revenge...
Drab Sep 25
'-) - cyclops winking.

What is the world coming to?
What is the world going to do?
The one-eyed monster,\
Is coming for you...
NOTES - HOLLOWEEN approaches from the south, build a wall!!!!!!
148 · Oct 13
Untitled
Drab Oct 13
The reason I use it.
Is that’s what I  use it for.
147 · Sep 9
It’s Not……Really
Drab Sep 9
It’s not really empathy if you have to do it.
It’s not really humble if you have to think about it.
It’s not really wise to not do these things.
Keep thinking about it
NOTES – 9924 - I knew Philosophy 102 would eventually come to the rescue...
146 · Sep 19
Change
Drab Sep 19
Old news doesn’t exist anymore.
Current news is temporary.
And future news…….

The outlook is not good.
I’m so worried about what might happen,
I forgot what was.
And have to look at from now on.
144 · Oct 2
War is Hell
Drab Oct 2
Being near him.
Take cover from the collateral damage.
He didn’t mean to hurt you.
It’s just his aim was off…
NOTES - not this war....
141 · Sep 7
Uh.
Drab Sep 7
Uh.
My view is cathardic....
That's what they say.
I'm pushing real hard,
But it doesn't move that way.

I guess I will give up.
The heart is not well.
A view from my perch.
Is a view from your ........heck.
NOTES - Almost said it
Drab Oct 23
I haven’t felt this healthy in years.
Perhaps ever (simultaneously).....

Physical.
Mental.
Spiritual
Emotional
And mostly….

The thought process has improved over  years of time and other peoples' labor.

Just before I croak.

Irony?
I think not!
Who says, God doesn’t have a sense of humor?
Let him/her cast the first stone.
Drab Sep 4
Some People write poetry to be famous.
Some People write poetry to be heard.
Some People write poetry to blend in.
Some People wrote poetry when they are empty, bored old human beings..

Guess which one you are?
NOTIFICATIONS - 09-03-24-666.3   stardate now. R. Stuart is a pretty good lad.
Drab Sep 25
History is just here say.
No translation.
No facts.
No evidence.
No time.
No common sense.
No chance of even thinking I know more than everyone.
Because I’m me.
Therefore, I am.
F Descartes…..
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135 · Oct 27
Drill Team
Drab Oct 27
Drill Baby Drill.

Hey, I didn’t say it…….
the tool pusher did.
128 · Sep 14
Disappointments Abound
Drab Sep 14
I wanted to be magnanimous
I wanted to be altruistic
I wanted to be ............

humbler..........

I “wanted” a lot of things……………..
NOTES – I learned these words in 6th grade. Well, the first two anyway…😉

The fourth is what I am....
126 · Sep 7
Duh
Drab Sep 7
Duh
"Movement, leaves marks...."
NOTES = Just saw this in a perspiration commercial, I pictured something else...lol. Google it. Really. Oh....this is not an ad. It's a relief among other things...
Drab Oct 30
What is this madness?
Is it that which we generate on our own?
Is it being angry?
Is it being, “out of touch” with “reality”.
I’m not so sure, anymore.
If I ever was.
Every once in a while,
It comes out,
Luckily,
I’ve been able to “hide” it…
For the last seventy years….
Now I’m just a crotchety old man….
Counting the days…
Of getting even….
With myself.
Just a kind, thought of the day….
125 · Sep 8
Power Play Now!
Drab Sep 8
"What gives you the right hey you
To stand there and tell me what to do
Tell me who gave you the power
To stop me from livin' like I do"

To: Everone.....NOW
NOTES - J. Kay and Steppenwolf - prophetic.......different time sorta. Should be a new moral prophylactic.
Drab Sep 9
You know,
I don’t mean to be a martyr
But I could use some sunshine here.

Just sayin…
NOTES – Can’t stop laughing………………………………………………………
924-8

Paid for by the fine folks at HP.
124 · Oct 28
It's sharp....
Drab Oct 28
Live by the sword
Die by the sword.
Fall on the sword.
Get rid of the sword.
It’s dangerous


Brought to you by the far right fascists and the left wing ****** pinkos’.
Drab 6d
"I don't know.
where i would want to live,
since ive lived everywhere.
It seems."



Sincerly,

Me
Drab Sep 9
Poor me.
Pour me.
Into the goblet of time.

Add some ice and I’ll rhyme.
Add some other stuff and I’m fine.
Put it all together, I’ll probably snort a line.
NOTE – Memories….or lack thereof

Quote of the day...."Words to Die By"
119 · 2d
Desperate Truth
Drab 2d
I’ve lost so much
That. I expect to lose everything.
all the time
119 · Sep 30
Personal Trainer
Drab Sep 30
Her rubs my shoulders.
Deep down my back.
His sinewy muscles flex…
Then he sends me out…..

To fight the good fight….
NOTE - Just thought of this one....
It's my dogs...jk
115 · Oct 10
Untitled
Drab Oct 10
I care about fifty-one percent of my country’s population.

You care about fifty percent of the world’s population.                        

OR

I, however, don’t care about much of ANYTHING,  except my family and friends.

And a couple others.
#VOTE
114 · Sep 7
Both Sides
Drab Sep 7
Michael's son, came to me.
And said to dad, why are we free?
I told him true, what I thought then
It's still in place, just now and them
September 7, 2024 - Four more days till the 11th........
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