I wish you could get a job,

Words not a wisdom, Words of an older friend, A friend that will never understand Not to write it’s to open my heart, Bleed out, I have over thirteen thousand things posted on YouTube, I worked my tail off to get four hundred and nineteen subscribers, I find it not helpful her assuming just because

Charles Shultz,Peanuts Treasure , Sharing some of the comics

Book from my collection,1968

What to do!

When she calls she’s so low, So tired, Been up three days, All I can do is hear her, Really hear her, Her body’s her enemy, Racked with pain, Only fifty-two, I tell her I love her, She says Val you have never ever met me, I said no matter, Meetings no big thing, I

Erasing art

Removing art does not erase history, Art is not a bullet, The concept of slavery was horrid! Started not in America, Came with imagrants, When I was a small girl, Mom took me to see her aunt and uncle, We went to Des Moines Iowa, I saw Roman art for first time, Women with no

The Train

My neighbor talks to me, Her father tortured his family for hours, Little brother beat unconcious, The train was savage, Unrelenting beating his sons and daughter bloody, Mother left, Coward! Some families war was on the home front! My dad’s weapons of pain were inflicted verbally! My older sister Diana lied”savagely, Crushed my good name,

Library Card

Right refused homeless, Last time at Independence Iowa Library only carring license, In order get a Library card two forms of ID needed, A bill proving an address, And license, Social Security card not an I.D. Its like saying Homeless stay clear, On my YouTube channle, Young and old can hear an Empath read books,

Aooooooooooook!

Theres no pronunciation! I get soooooo annoyed when people refuse to hear the news! So when I say if the infrastructure is needing repairs then whats incorrect with the Taxes rising on the rich? Do the expect to pay for Nothing! The little guy, me we pay with higher gas prices, food and etcetera! My

That Army Drill

Company D, We had a woman, As a child I took her as just annoying, Annoying was her job, Its that woman who pounded it into me work, Put self before now, Climb hill, Shoot the M-16, Nineteen seventy seven I was such a child, No confidence, Dad an alcoholic, Youngest child, Dad tried, Training

Looking up

Tree tops below heaven, Eldorado hill, Winneshiek County, Allamakee County, Bluffs across the river, Where ever you go, Simply look up, Imagine your flying over, Looking down, What do you see? I see different shapes, Leaves, Branches, Colors, Like people no two alike, Similar, Like snow flakes, Unique one and all, Dedicated to my LGBTQ

My Nana,

Voice cracked when sang in church, How odd things grand daughters recall, Me what I recall, We all can sit with those we love, Recall nuisances others might never care to take note of, Nana was pure Norsk, Norsk means Norwegian, Lottie Henrietta Starkey was married in nineteen twenty-two at twenty four, Fourth grade teacher,