Frozen kitchen floor

This morning between tears, Penny entered her kitchen, Ice from cats water bowl spilled and only in Iowa this December froze Christmas ever morning frozen kitchen floor, Dirt under Penny’s kitchen linoleum, Penny worried, Cried some more, Feared while she worked her kitties and dog and bird and turtle would freeze to death she she

Will climb

To three degrees before falling, Falling like eight little reindeer, And a jolly old fellow, All dressed in red and white, Down billion christian chimneys, Or is it all children who believe in goodness, The bible says all children! I hope its good heart because they need love the most ,

Sleepie Head

Wow I was warn out, Saw a marvelous, True, sensational, Movie at my little sister’s last night, It was gay, Tremendous, From the eighties Kinky , That’s right I saw ‘Kinky Boots,’ From Jolly ole England, America would would have never backed a young man simply trying to save his family business, Or the story

What the flock?

All the trees in Winneshiek County, Loaded with snow, When I was a kid we sprayed our Christmas tree with stuff called Flock, When my sisters husbands parents were just a rating out, As pig farmers they erred, Flocked their pine out doors, Tree went in and came real fast, Do you know why? Tree

One

T.P. That’s all Independence, Iowa Food bank gives out! Causes me to ponder, Iowa food stamp program instead of patting me on the back for trying to survive by selling my books and living on less then nine hundred a month after Covid-19 my food stamps went down to thirty dollars, Some months I make

Jolly holidays

Aren’t holidays to be jolly, Aren’t friends to come by and say howdy? I miss WordPress that didn’t fight me when I wrote, I miss hitting the next line thing and going down, With this unsmart phone I nearly break my writing finger off before the next paragraph starts, I have a Brothers typewriter, But

Historical speaking

Historian I am, Studied at NICC and Luther College, No deployma upon my wall you see, TBI could not test out of statistics, I understand it, When I asked why a fifty-six year old needed math to teach history I was assured that it would teach me a new way to think, I’m a poor

Next week past forty

Irrational, Irksome, Terrible cold, Like magic next week next to fifty degrees, Time warp! Tarsus, No,no , I’ll stick with irrational, First of December temperatures, Plummith once more, Some wizard is playing with the temperature, If they it is irrationally warm up north what is it in the tropics? Having Verizon I have no way

Goodnight,

Goodnight to one and all, I saw a troubling movie commercial this afternoon, It was a Christmas ‘No way in hell will the theater get my money!’ Its like ax murders Santa Claus! Its bad enough stores have turned Christmas into shop till you drop, Spend,spend,spend, From before Halloween, And Walmart plays hip hop but

Would love to work in Real Estate or back into Hospitality

However theres this dude who dies an infomercial, Doesn’t tell us his name, Tells us to goggle him, Bullshit that’s not the way to get people to work with you, You talk to people, You introduce yourself, You level the playing ground, Hi I’m Val, I sell books, Write and am a poet, Great driving