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26 June 2025

  • 13:4113:41, 26 June 2025 Reprimand at Rosewood Manor (hist | edit) [436 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Reprimand at Rosewood Manor==== ''July 2, 1995'' <poem> The old rooster forgets his true age and struts even though his spurs are blunted his crown drooping He crows a bawdy mouthful The manager takes him aside firmly and reminds him "this is a mixed crowd see those women go get yourself a glass of punch and sit down Please"</poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Permission}}")
  • 13:4013:40, 26 June 2025 Cornered (hist | edit) [997 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Cornered ==== <poem> I knew Herb's crafty eyes were on the vacant seat of the county Board of Supervisors when he came and started to talk to our group at Rosewood trying his best to be so erudite and not fooling anyone except the tenant in number 17 whose eyes never left Herb when he cleared his throat and announced "Ladies and gentlemen we have almost reached the end of two millennia and we can expect changes of enormous consequence" The te...")
  • 13:3813:38, 26 June 2025 Perfume Hound (hist | edit) [554 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Perfume Hound ==== <poem> Here in Oleander Gardens where men are only three percent women hide at the sight of one man who always asks if he gets near enough "what scent is that ''"White Shoulders'' ''Tabu'' or maybe ''Opium?''" I heard a widow of ninety-two yell back at him "This is Avon's ''August Roses''" then she hobbled away as fast as a metal walker can and left him sniffing the air trying to remember all the fragrances women wear</poe...")
  • 13:3613:36, 26 June 2025 Forty-Five-Year-Old Man on Total Disability (hist | edit) [679 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Forty-Five-Year-Old Man On Total Disability ==== <poem> Some of the bored and nosy tenants at Golden Age Gardens challenged the newcomer "Man, you're too young to be living in this place How did you pull it off" and they crowded around and wondered about his wide belt with a Zuni silver buckle and asked if he shouldn't have to sell it to offset his low rent at that point Maggie Case spoke up "You fools don't have enough brains among you to fil...")
  • 13:3413:34, 26 June 2025 News on the Legal Front (hist | edit) [502 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====News on the Legal Front ==== <poem> Twenty-one trees the lawyers planted on Volunteer Saturday strange sight indeed sweating dungarees twenty-one redwoods soquels and Aptos blue grow five feet a year and last five thousand years twenty-one trees all donated eagerly by Valley nurseries Nary a lawyer struck a deal or billed a client while mockingbirds surveyed the scene and serenaded all</poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coat...")
  • 13:3313:33, 26 June 2025 Mourners (hist | edit) [603 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Mourners ==== <poem> Bob and Wendy drove up from Glendale and spent last night with me I don't think they slept at all These apartment walls are thin and each time I awoke I could hear them talking low They are taking Jerry Garcia's death very hard and that won't help Bob's irregular heartbeat I set the coffee maker for them and put out cinnamon rolls to heat dozed off and didn't awaken until six-thirty They had drunk half a pot of coffee the...")
  • 13:3113:31, 26 June 2025 I Have My Own Ideas (hist | edit) [583 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====I Have My Own Ideas ==== <poem> I know for a fact she is an MD fully licensed and has a practice in LA But why does she spend every weekend at rodeos here in the dusty San Joaquin Valley wearing jeans and cowboy boots trying to get acquainted with every cowboy and bull rider on the Western circuit talking like a girl who wouldn't know a stethoscope if she saw one I have my own ideas about this situation from her end of a conversation I ov...")
  • 13:3013:30, 26 June 2025 My Brother and His Barber (hist | edit) [669 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====My Brother and His Barber ==== <poem> My fussy silver-haired brother came home neatly trimmed and told me while taking down a coffee mug "My barber makes me nervous the man unloads his entire life on me with every haircut "He tells me about his bills the dirty deals his various wives pulled on him "child support for kids who never send him a birthday card "He leaves nothing out takes more time than I have hair just to finish his story "He...")
  • 13:2713:27, 26 June 2025 A Mother's Vocation. (hist | edit) [473 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====A Mother's Vocation ==== <poem> I don't know how God feels about the subject but little Andy's mother has already called him to a priestly vocation I remember when he was only four she made him a monk's habit from an old bathrobe and tied it around his waist with drapery cord She was so proud "Look at him A perfect little Thomas Merton Anyone can see it" </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Permission}}")
  • 13:2613:26, 26 June 2025 A Grandfather's View (hist | edit) [513 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====A Grandfather's View ==== <poem> A Mother's Vocation Mister Marshall takes A dim view Of modern music "Why the names alone are enough to corrupt youth "Sting Red Hot The Grateful Dead Their leader diedWhether he was grateful or not the old boy passed on "And this new one My grandkids are raving about Big House "Don't that remind you Of a penitentiary? Like 'going up the river' When we meant Sing Sing"</poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Bo...")
  • 13:2413:24, 26 June 2025 The Last Go-Around (hist | edit) [783 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====The Last Go-Around ==== <poem> Cletus looks good for sixty and the hard traveling he has done. A girl at the beauty shop confessed she keeps his bronze hair all one color. I saw him recently down at the Korner Kitchen. He had a three-stack before him and was slathering on soft margarine and maple syrup and talking to the regulars who eat breakfast there. "Yeah, you heard it right. I'm gonna tie the knot again. You don't know her, a little redhe...")
  • 00:0400:04, 26 June 2025 Tonight Is Carnival (hist | edit) [724 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Tonight Is Carnival ==== <poem> Under the lamp with the shade that turns yellow when the light comes on I drink tea with a scholar who swept in smiling a Russian translation in her bag carrying every good thing for me: lace cookies and ice cream a loaf of dark bread and two stories from North Beach At that point I told the stories I'd overheard in Farmersville better than anything from San Francisco The scholar checked the calendar said Lent...")
  • 00:0300:03, 26 June 2025 Vigil with Aunt Maggie Bowman (hist | edit) [581 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Vigil with Aunt Maggie Bowman ==== <poem> Darman phoned me from a garage a lump of dread choking his voice "You better go," he said "There isn't much time and you know her old ways better than I" which is true though Aunt Maggie probably doesn't know I am here Her body feels cool as the sheets but she must be burning inside her memory "The old well" she keeps saying "Draw a fresh bucket and give me a drink" She stirs on the pillow "and tie up...")
  • 00:0200:02, 26 June 2025 I Never Felt Right (hist | edit) [542 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====I Never Felt Right ==== <poem> Aunt Rose made coffee for the two of us while we waited for the coroner's release "You must never again" she told me severely "let death find you without a black dress "I never felt right going to Jack's funeral in a pink dress the only one I had "There I was among his womenfolks in their grieving black dresses" The sadness in her voice sounded as if Uncle Jack had died last year instead of 1940</poem> ====Note...")
  • 00:0100:01, 26 June 2025 Calling on a Bereaved Neighbor (hist | edit) [630 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Calling on a Bereaved Neighbor ==== <poem> Esther is a hard woman to love and she never liked me I had to whip myself to her house when I heard the news She met me at the door her eyes cold dry and said "I'm glad you came" and took me to the kitchen where she was making a casserole "Why don't men take care of themselves" she complained matter-of-factly "It was like John wanted to die and get away from me-- lifting those wheelbarrows of ro...")

25 June 2025

  • 23:5923:59, 25 June 2025 Surprise (hist | edit) [460 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Surprise ==== <poem> Nora is a pious girl She has every right to be fundamental as they come Mitch likes to tease her I heard him ask "Do you really believe in angels? Have you seen one today?" That was when he and I got a big surprise Nora hit him across the mouth so hard his lips began to swell bluish and she gathered up her Bible and walked off</poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Permission}}")
  • 23:2523:25, 25 June 2025 Sister Beuline's Advice (hist | edit) [529 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Sister Beuline's Advice ==== After that last red-hot revival, when the evangelist claimed to have seen several of his flock in Hell's flames, his sermon got to Sister Beuline. She even tore up her recipé for devil's food cake and urged my mother to do the same. She said a cake named for the devil didn't have any place on a saved woman's table. Mama just gave her a kind look and ordered more chocolate from the Rawleigh man. ====Notes==== ------...")
  • 23:2423:24, 25 June 2025 My Landlady Brings Me an Easter Gift (hist | edit) [546 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====My Landlady Brings Me an Easter Gift ==== <poem> She brought me a pot of African violets deepest purple fleshiest blossoms that ever grew in Kmart's garden and she laughed with a bell in her voice that rang all the way to Tipton on the south flung her hair about in that sunlit shade of a blonde woman turned fifty living like thirty and getting away with it having no doubt she will retain that laugh and shade of hair till ninety </poem> ====...")
  • 23:2223:22, 25 June 2025 Some Day Soon (hist | edit) [543 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Some Day Soon ==== <poem> Telephone poles are holy-- Look how they form a line of Latin crosses all the way from Tipton to Pixley the smell of dairy growing stronger by the mile How devout Portuguese milkers really are: They cross themselves dozens of times each day and never even know it as they pass beneath the poles Their indulgences are piling up and some day will reach to Heaven-- a special corner smelling of Grade A milk </poem> ====Not...")
  • 23:2023:20, 25 June 2025 Dignity (hist | edit) [485 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Dignity ==== <poem> I smooth my sheets plump the pillows spread a patchwork quilt and hide my nightgown in the closet God grant one favor: that no paramedic will ever find me in it dead and gone where I am going May the gown hang in dignity unseen May I depart in sweats and heavy shoes ''Selected Poems'' of Thomas McGrath under my left arm a magnifying glass in my purse </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Pe...")
  • 23:1823:18, 25 June 2025 The Extremist (hist | edit) [523 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====The Extremist ==== <poem> I may be something of a nitpicker but I hope not a nitwit I do rail whenever I see a TV preacher driving a Dusenberg I grab a mop and beat the life out of helpless spiders I may be a bit extreme but let the high roller preachers stay away from Cannes and drive economy cars use their gas in the pulpit high octane for the Lord I could go for that write a small check even sign it</poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{T...")
  • 23:1723:17, 25 June 2025 Opal. (hist | edit) [315 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Opal ==== ''September 30, 1995'' <poem> Sister finally got a storm named after her How fitting I bet the winds are angry auburn color and they have their say however long it takes to blow anger out to sea </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Permission}}")
  • 23:1623:16, 25 June 2025 Late Spring for a Catholic (hist | edit) [520 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Late Spring for a Catholic ==== <poem> It is a cold day for spring bluish and keep-your-distance an impossible time for a fling with the Sierra Nevada I have no snowshoes and would die at high altitude so I am saved from excess and turn up the heat Shall I brew my best tea or save it for the visitors: a girl with gray eyes a man with bad scars or shall I open the old book where a purple ribbon marks Lent </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Temp...")
  • 23:1523:15, 25 June 2025 In the Paradise Restaurant (hist | edit) [616 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====In the Paradise Restaurant==== <poem> My first visit here Across the room I see a woman in rose I hear her laughter at a remark not meant for me a stranger in Paradise She repeats the remark "A Catholic in Oklahoma is that such a big deal?" I stir rice on my plate and mouth words silently to the woman in rose so little she knows ''A Catholic in Oklahoma a snowball in hell How long did they last? Which ones melted and ran when the fire b...")
  • 23:1323:13, 25 June 2025 In Their Company (hist | edit) [435 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====In Their Company ==== <poem> I really am patient most of the time but there is a limit to this waiting around for a glimpse of my gang who lit out for greener pastures Not that I begrudge them a better deal I just long to be in their scruffy company again even if they have tidied up their acts become boring little saints</poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Permission}}")
  • 23:1223:12, 25 June 2025 My Question (hist | edit) [528 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====My Question==== <poem> Why don't bells toll My brother's heart broke in four pieces and he is dead in El Paso The rest of the town mourns: the Rio Grande's gone dry gamecocks won't fight red chilis don't burn rattlesnakes defanged scorpions retired police are in a coma Larry McMurtry's left Texas So why don't bells toll from the poor stucco church where Brother prayed by the hour and his tears flooded the pews</poem> ====Notes==== -------...")
  • 23:1123:11, 25 June 2025 To Boating Friends (hist | edit) [460 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====To Boating Friends ==== <poem> Even if I threw my life overboard with the likes of you and came up choking in the midst of seaweed and starfish my eyes would be in the back of my head looking for dry land dusty cracked earth bird tracks snake prints crossing my homeward path- I would be calling for them even if I were going down for the third time. </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Permission}}")
  • 23:1023:10, 25 June 2025 Admission (hist | edit) [461 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Admission ==== <poem> I worry too much about heavy stuff: That I realize So foolish of me for this and that things above my simple mind when I don't even know how I got here All directions are blanks to me road maps a migraine headache Why can't I reason with myself? Why should I worry just because I don't know the way out of this place either?</poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:Permission}}")
  • 17:5717:57, 25 June 2025 We Never Called It Theatre (hist | edit) [573 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====We Never Called It Theatre ==== <poem> Live theater actual faces with people's eyes looking at us from the stage various voices old Ephraim in ''Desire Under the Elms'' Sister and I had our favorites in plays and playwrights That funny wicked Noel Coward with ''Hay Fever'' the woman who played Sorel Bliss was bliss itself ‘We wished our brothers H and K could have been with us at ''Shenandoah'' but they were farther away than just across the...")
  • 17:5617:56, 25 June 2025 January Reality, 1998 (hist | edit) [602 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====January Reality ==== <poem> The cost of living goes up the perm in my hair grows out shall I try for waist-length or make it to Paolo's? He is Brasileiro his hole-in-the-wall shop s0 tiny we must back in only two chairs (hard old-style) and get a haircut and perm for only ten dollars Can you believe that? It won't last long He is too good his eyes pure liquid He will soon become the trendy Paolo and drop us ten-spot ladies for upscale women wh...")
  • 17:5417:54, 25 June 2025 Breadstuff (hist | edit) [531 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Breadstuff ==== <poem> I have never liked bagels even from Foxxy's in Las Vegas where people thought they were the best 1 still don't like bagels It is something in my Okie culture maybe in my genes Breadstuff I do love Pass the cornbread toss me a biscuit make me a flour tortilla But please don't lay any bagels on me the way Good Life forced them on derelicts and women folding clothes in the White Foam Laundromat </poem> ====Notes==== ----...")
  • 17:5217:52, 25 June 2025 Agreement (hist | edit) [623 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Agreement ==== ''September 26, 1996'' <poem> 1 look in my full-length mirror from Ace Hardware—(six ninety-five once in a lifetime price) and agree with the mirror that I am a beautiful woman for the type I am My hair is a haystack my head classic pumpkin smooth in the jaws Halloween I don't fake— these are my teeth So many prizes go out to cookie-cutter beauties parading through life what does that matter to me I look in my mirror thump o...")
  • 17:5117:51, 25 June 2025 Going to Autographing in Foreign Car (hist | edit) [722 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Going to Autographing in Foreign Car ==== <poem> I am uneasy in this car: so small—where does the gas go? So low I fear the underside is dragging on concrete and worse than that my new all-weather coat must be swiping asphalt from that stretch of Highway 43 and where Sir will you park in Pygmyland and who will stand by the door to help you extract me from this expensive low-down toy Well, keep driving to the signing my boy—If I wanted to ri...")
  • 17:5017:50, 25 June 2025 Finding Old Perfume Bottle (hist | edit) [607 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Finding Old Perfume Bottle ==== <poem> This has gone far enough— stop the unpacking I beg you Put back the blue bottle from down in the trunk Can't you see yet that “Evening in Paris” was much better in Kansas: Great Bend had dust storms and great lovers with grit in their teeth Its women were awesome— they picked flowers from high off the sun to braid in their hair I ask you again— halt the unpacking let love stay where it is keep...")
  • 17:4917:49, 25 June 2025 Waiting for a Train (hist | edit) [496 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Waiting for a Train ==== <poem> Two silly people asked me point-blank as if I were on trial “How about romance?” They didn't specify whose romance— mine or the railroad'’s and since I wasn‘t under oath 1 didn't have to tell them that this affair of the heart has gone on for years with midnight trains writing me songs of love which I always answer from my darkened room </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{...")
  • 17:4817:48, 25 June 2025 Murder Past Midnight (hist | edit) [724 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Murder Past Midnight ==== <poem> That cricket was unreasonable I gave him every way out I said “Look here— you have messed up my sleep for the past month chirping under my bed the second the light goes out calling for your lady friend Just vacate my apartment go out the way you came in (which is a mystery to me) and I will forget your offense” But he ignored me and last night my heart was dark even without a belligerent cricket under my...")
  • 17:4617:46, 25 June 2025 Can Crows Smell Jasmine (hist | edit) [487 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Can Crows Smell Jasmine ==== <poem> Brother Crow since you spend all your daylight hours parading through my yard May I politely ask where do you live when the sun goes down What tree is your cottage Who serves you supper Is it the complaining one who follows you all day Does she change under a high moon on swaying branches Can crows smell jasmine Do you kiss goodnight </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:Borrowed Coats}} {{Template:...")
  • 17:4517:45, 25 June 2025 Where on Earth (hist | edit) [897 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Where on Earth ==== ''August 24, 1980'' Not everyone in his family had died, but there were only four siblings left the morning Sheldon Rising came, with tomatoes from his garden that were even more beautiful than the ones he'd brought us the summer before. We invited him in for coffee but he told us he couldn't stay, stood there at the door for just a minute. Such a frail, gentle man, with amazing blue eyes. Then he drove off in his old pickup....")
  • 17:4217:42, 25 June 2025 At Spring Yard Sale (hist | edit) [606 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====At Spring Yard Sale ==== <poem> Without my consent the cycle turns sets the seasons: peach-hot August trails blackberry July but already this blowy April day I am planning for winter which doesn't seem right with iris nodding around me thin-veined and delicate: There should be autumn asters and thick-lashed daisies strong and independent not begging for anything but with only a dime's worth of time what can I do about the restless seasons ex...")
  • 17:4117:41, 25 June 2025 Live and Let Live (hist | edit) [667 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Live and Let Live ==== <poem> There was a stray dog on my lawn tonight apparently not a vicious animal sneaking along behind me in the sultry night Sprinklers went on violently and the dog lay down flat on the wet grass paws stretched out in utter relief 1 didn't have the heart to call Animal Control and leave a message It is such a hard night— why not live and let live as far as we poor ones can Mother Teresa is dead and Princess Diana know...")
  • 17:3917:39, 25 June 2025 Suddenly I Remember (hist | edit) [635 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Suddenly I Remember ==== <poem> Five years ago American antiques were all the rage I hid Mama's oak rocker from nosy dealers also her pewter mugs Now I can bring them out— Asian art is definitely in and Far East culture has hit our town A local car dealer placed a stone Buddha in his backyard a fry cook we know has gone into debt for ''Koi'' let his mortgage lapse and two WASP neighbors are studying Japanese at the community college Sudd...")
  • 17:3717:37, 25 June 2025 New California Industry (hist | edit) [793 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====New California Industry ==== <poem> I used to know exactly where I was Now I must stand in the center of the San Joaquin Valley heart of my heart to even locate where I belong I look to the north—I see prisons I scan the south—I see only prisons where half a century ago wild flowers spread a Persian carpet for guests Now I pick my way through shattered lives broken bottles and half-buried guns and knives I cannot forget and do not allow my...")
  • 17:3517:35, 25 June 2025 Entrapment (hist | edit) [573 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Entrapment ==== <poem> A patch on my heart my face full of frowns still you coaxed “Do come with me a couple hours it will be fun get you away from your pain and your prayers” 1 only nodded ‘We went too jauntily for me to an oasis of plastic palms and makeshift waterfalls ‘We entered through a door stolen from a convent Down the hall I could hear steady buzzing a hive of poets Why didn’t you warn me that bees who tipple white wine...")
  • 17:3317:33, 25 June 2025 My New Business (hist | edit) [514 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====My New Business ==== <poem> You thought I had retired from sweets but no here I go to my candy shop for now I own this world a business I've craved all my life I wear a white cap to cover my hair never pulled taffy tighter I have mastered peanut brittle my lemon drops ‘won't sour your mouth my candy kisses Hershey rich are never too sweet for one more kiss my peppermint canes will walk you home </poem> ====Notes==== -------- {{Template:B...")
  • 17:3117:31, 25 June 2025 Thoughts After Telephone Call (hist | edit) [759 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Thoughts After Telephone Call==== ''December 28, 1996'' <poem> You telephoned me from Buffalo three days after Christmas asked about my holidays and the weather in California I looked out the window at a small lake and started to complain of excessive rain and cold but you cut me off with “California winters are nothing You valley-ites never have to shovel snow” Of course you are correct in that one sense but you don't realize how har...")
  • 17:2817:28, 25 June 2025 Frying Potatoes (hist | edit) [567 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Frying Potatoes==== <poem> At one time I would have tossed this day off as being dull and not worth fooling with but that was before Mrs Malvita Poston moved here to Rosewood with her style of cooking and contempt of diets Today she is frying potatoes— already they are burning which is part of the ritual She will rush to the stove and make a fuss over stirring them then put the lid back on and walk away until the potatoes reach charred per...")
  • 17:2617:26, 25 June 2025 Could I Stop There (hist | edit) [537 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====Could I Stop There ==== <poem> Today I changed from plain graham crackers to the new chocolate flavor It made all the difference and started me wondering if 1 could wear eye shadow Would it be like a blast of chocolate And could I stop there Would I be a fool with black smudges under my astigmatic eyes even go further astray sampling Tahiti-red lipstick at the cosmetic counter and longing for all the colors of Gauguin </poem> ====Notes====...")
  • 17:2217:22, 25 June 2025 Burned in the Test (hist | edit) [593 bytes] WikiSysop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<youtube></youtube> ====Burned in the Test ==== <poem> i have wasted so much sunrise scraping burned oatmeal from a charred pot I have often profaned bright noon into three pm waiting by the telephone for a call that never came Why can't I be satisfied to soak a pot overnight and be content with new shoestrings when the old ones snap I have spent a cat's lifetime tying short pieces together I have glued broken handles on many cups waited days to find out they never...")

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