Cats go

Cats come, Its where they feel safe, Or warm, Secure in love, This morning Boots watched Chester and Molly embrassed in my arms wrapped in my bear blanket, That’s what Boots wanted, He hesitated his way near to me, The kittens rose and departed, Boots is no longer shivering, Wrapped in the warm blanket below

Penny the energizer bunny,

Works from 7pm-3 am, Use to before last summer work a sixty hour week, Disabilied, Worked five years at Mercy One on cane in Waterloo,Iowa,forty miles from home, Secretary ER, Never had a break, Hurts to stand, Hurts to walk, No heat at home for two years, No Furnace, Northern Iowa, Two years, Worked there

Best sleeping drug

Cat in my arms, If your seeking an elaborate poem, My pretty ones, This is but a to the point, Elegant and distinct, I hold a kitty, Can fall asleep ready, Tomorrow after the food bank, A lady who found an orange kitten, Has decided the kitten isn’t a keeper, I think all life is,

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

Player down,

All hearts with family of falling, Twenty-four years old, Fell at work, Maybe with this ambulance upon the field players all age will see the games true dangers, Bengals and Bills, Historic game, Health takes president, Parent think, All school sports are hard on children, Dad use to say wrestling is hardest sport in school

Do you a jibber Jabber?

Did you come out late in life? Did you date the wrong sex to please those near and dear to you? Was that toxic to you? People will never get born Gay it wasn’t a choice like what Cologne you wanted to wear to fit in! Have you always tried to please those you loved?

Horrible things

Happen all the time, Today Penny’s kitchen ceiling fell in, Val to the rescue, Penny’s eighty-seven year old mom there when I arrived looked worried, Water half way into the dinning room, Pipes burst! Above ceiling fan could be seen second floor rafters, Penny on tears, It was three then, Tamran and the young man

Did I tell you,

After two trips up into the dead of winter of the ‘Day After’,without Dennis Quad, First trip sixty-five in March climbed like a mountain goat up vertical steps void handrail to hook up an electric heated to thaw out the bathroom frozen pipes, Then the landing full of shoes bought to sell but sit there

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

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,