Two months from sixty-five,

Still love Greek Vanilla yogurt, Animal crackers, Graham crackers, Tomato soap and either scramble egg sandwiches or grilled cheese, Mom’s John Mazzetti casserole, I haven’t a casserole dish or a cake pan, Red velvet cake, Women in sexy shoes, Calves of women, Charlene Harris, Victoria Laurie, Janet Evonovitch, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, Karen Blackwell,

Unknown

Thoughts you hear and at an age to come you keep your thoughts or you foolishly share them, Sometimes thoughts shared feel good even when not welcome, Its the sharing the poet me feels, Thoughts, Words, Strung together are for our spirits, Our thoughts are not meant to make others hurt, Our being , Our

When I was fifty-six

Standing on the threshold of forty-seven, My entire world was like Jenga, You know the game like giant pixie sticks pull out the wrong one and you are doomed, Mom and I were watching TV, I on the floor at moms feet with Patches, Patches was an orange cat, Patches arrived at my cat hostel

Oh my ,Oh my,

Even weather bulliton shouting chicken little warning! ‘The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Recession! Little guys first! Like the worlds the Titanic! Funny no one ever says {poets,poor and animals first}, But its us that suffer way before wealthy tell us of a recession, This Jew’s book selling business doesn’t bring in a

Use to be a kitchen was a women’s base of operations

I like women if my generation better, Their base is Everywhere, Bedroom to Executive, Space to Oceanographer, All sexy and provocative, Orgasmic and Erriotic, Blowing ceilings off Everywhere! Intellectuals are the new Sexy, Watch it boys,

Two different women

Loved both, Differently mom never got the heart sickness of loving same sex, There are no mentors if you are a round peg in a square world, Guess my family saw me as retarded because I never dated males, Never dated period until I was forty, Told my older half sister I came out, She

Thirty-nine degrees

December 14th,2022, Rained all last night, Northern Iowa, When I was a kid that last if rain we had was in October, Global Warming is a bitch, At least gas prices have less robber barons stealing from us not able to afford thirty thousand dollar highbreds.

Job alerts

Now they are coming from Oregan, How does Iowa resemble Oregon or northern Iowa, The job site’s wonder why I have not replied, I’m from Waukon,IA, Born in Storm Lake,Iowa, Live just now in Quasqueton,Iowa, Want to be nearer Waukon, My nephews are there, They need to remember who I am, That I’m not the

Corn

Iowa does well, A Facebook friend said Illinois does it better, I disagree but I don’t care I live here but my heart belongs to: Dakota where the hills are black, Where I had my vision quest in ninety-four, Wisconsin where my youth was spent, Virginia and PA where my mom’s family first took breath,

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