[ 237 ][ The Norm … 3•20•2021 ]

[ I Have Been So Anxious All Of My Life & I
     Don’t Ever ]
[ Get Any Better ]

[ & Slowly Go Back To The Norm ]
[ But What Does That Look Or Feel Like? ]
[ Is It Always The Calmest Before The Storm? ]

[ Maybe I Will Never Get There ]
[ Maybe I Don’t Know Where ]

[ I Am Supposed To Go ]
[ What Will Be The Form? ]
[ Of What I Don’t Know? ]

[ Confusion Would Be @ The Top Of My List ]
[ I Would Be So Unsure Of What I Might Have Missed ]

[ What I Would Need @ The Time Would Be A Warm Drink
     That Goes Straight To The Soul ]
[ Then Try To Figure Out What Piece I Was Missing
     That Could Make Me Feel Whole ]

[ But Talk Is Very Cheap & Easy To Come By ]
[ When Alot Of People Try To Be Honest ]
[ They Can Only Lie ]

[ A hui hou aku ]
‎ ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 244 ][ To You, My Friend … 3•23•2021 ]

[ Okay, Big M ]
[ I Really Feel Sad About Your Problems ]

[ You Are In A Situation Where You Have No
     Control ]
[ & That Is Normally Not How You Roll ]

[ Your Son Is Laying In A Hospital Bed ]
[ & That Image Sticks In Your Head ]

[ You Are Unable To Reach Out & Take All Of
     His Pain Away ]
[ But You Stand There ]
[ & Continue To Stay ]

[ You Are Such The Loving & Devoted Man ]
[ & You Try & Try To Do What You Can ]

[ Any Boy Would Beg & Plead For The Love That
     You Have & You Show Your Son ]
[ You Are A Realistic Man By Knowing That Life
     Can’t Be Filled With Only Giggles & Fun ]

[ When It Comes To Being A Great Dad You
     Definitely Fill The Part ]
[ You Show That It Is Not The Money That You Give ]
[ It Takes A Big Heart ]

[ Every Day You Worry ]
[ So Much ]
[ Your Eyesight Goes Blurry ]

[ You Stand By In Case Anybody Needs Help ]
[ If It Was Possible ]
[ You Would Get Five Stars On Yelp ]

[ A Person That Was New ]
[ Would Read All The Way Through ]
[ The 100’s Of Rave Reviews ]

[ Big M, If You Are Even Half The Dad, As You Are My Friend ]
[ The Love That You Have For Your Son ]
[ Will Never Ever End ]

~ The End ~

[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 202 ][ Staying 6 Feet Apart … 3•11•2021 ]

[ How Can You Touch My Heart ]
[ When We Have To Stay @ Least 6 Feet Apart? ]

[ I Live & Love Very Much ]
[ For The Sound Of Your Voice & The Feel Of Your Touch ]

[ What I Wouldn’t Do For A Hug From You ]
[ Because It Is Way Overdue ]

[ I Took Your Touch For Granted Every Single Day ]
[ But Now You Have To Stay ]
[ Far, Far Away ]

[ For Your Own Safety ]
[ & That Matters To Me ]

[ Because I Was Never Able To Give You Wealth ]
[ I Can Help You Protect Your Health ]

[ Ever Since A Year Before Last February ]
[ I Have Missed You Dearly ]

[ When Will This End? ]

~ The End ~

[ A hui hou aku ]
‎ ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 199 ][ The Biggest Mystery In Town … 3•10•2021 ]

[ Little Red Ridinghood ]
[ Was Walking Around The Neighborhood ]
[ Up To No Good ]

[ She Saw Scooby-Doo Sitting On A Log ]
[ & She Asked ( WHAT’s UP OLD DOG? ) ]
[ ( WHY ARE JUST SITTING THERE ACTING LIKE YOUR
     HEAD IS IN A FOG? ) ]

[ After She Asked Twice ]
[ She Stopped Being Nice ]

[ Then Left Him All Alone ]
[ After Stealing His Cell Phone ]

[ Right Then A Call Came In ]
[ If She Was To Answer It ]
[ She Had No Idea How The Conversation Would Begin ]

[ Days Go By & The Phone Keeps Ringing Off Of The Hook ]
[ Apparently Scooby-Doo Went Missing ]
[ & Nobody Could Figure Out Where In The World They
     Should Look ]

[ Little Red Started Losing Sleep ]
[ Because She Felt That She Had A Big Secret She Had
    To Keep ]

[ What If She Was The Last One To See Scooby-Doo Alive? ]
[ When She Stole His Phone About Four Days Ago ]
[ Or Was It Five ]

[ Little Red Went With Her Younger Niece ]
[ When She Decided To Go Talk To The Police ]

[ She Made Up A Good Story, All The While Lying ]
[ She Even Drew Sympathy ]
[ As She Was Fake Crying ]

[ Little Red Made Up Every Little Bit ]
[ When She Was Making Up The Story About How She
     Found It ]

[ When They Left The Station She Was A Little Bit
     Relieved ]
[ Because She THOUGHT She Had Told Them A Story
     That They Believed ]

[ But Two Days Later After She Called For A Lyft Ride ]
[ & Then Went Outside ]
[ There Was A Big Sign In Her Front Yard That Said
     ( WE ALL KNOW THAT YOU LIED! ) ]

[ Now She Felt Scared ]
[ About Who Put That Sign Out There ]

[ & Who Was ( THE WE? ) ]
[ She Had No Idea Who That Could Be ]

[ This Really Troubled Her ]
[ & Made Her Feel Unsafe ]
[ & Unsure ]

[ Because She Has Lied ]
[ So Much ]
[ She Had A Hunch ]
[ That She Needed To Find ]
[ Some Place To Hide ]
[ Instead Of Going Out To Lunch ]

[ She Went Back Inside Her House ]
[ Packed 3 Bags Full Of Clothes ]
[ & Left A Goodbye Note To Bugs Bunny, Her Spouse ]

[ It Told Him ( PLEASE DON’t COME LOOKING FOR ME … ) ]
[ ( BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE I WILL BE ) ]

[ When Little Red Walked Out The Front Door ]
[ & Caught A Lift Ride ]
[ Nobody Ever Saw Little Red Around The Neighborhood
     Anymore ]

[ The Scooby-Doo & Little Red Mystery ]
[ Will Always Go Down In History ]

[ As One Having To Do With The Other ]
[ Scooby’s Three Boys Miss Their Father ]
[ & Little Red’s Two Daughters ]
[ Miss Their Mother ]

~ The End ~

[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 194 ][ A Raft For One … 3•6•2021 ]

[ Here I Sit In A Raft Made For One ]
[ I Tried To Ask Someone To Go With Me ]
[ But They Said That Did Not Look Like It Would Be
     All That Much Fun ]

[ I Tried To Entice ]
[ & Ask Really Nice ]

[ But I Had No Takers ]
[ Because Every Single Friend Turned Out To Be
     Big Fakers ]

[ Faked Their Friendship & Faked Their Love ]
[ They Faked Everything That They Spoke Of ]

[ Was Their Name ]
[ Even The Same? ]

[ People Even Lie ]
[ With Their Eyes ]
[ Girls ]
[ & Guys ]

[ Does Not Matter The Gender ]
[ Some People Are Just Not Tender ]

[ Deep Deep Down ]
[ Some People Are As Honest As A Clown ]

[ Having A Painted On Smile ]
[ That Only Lasts For Awhile]

[ I Wish I Could Foresee The Ones Coming ]
[ That Are So Numbing ]

[ That Would Save Me So Much Time & Energy ]
[ If They Would Let Me Know That They Had No Integrity ]

[ So I Guess It Is A Plus That They Are Not In My Raft
     While I Am Drifting ]
[ Because I Would Practice Some Lifting ]

[ As I Throw Them Over The Side ]
[ Because That Was Just A Matter Of Pride ]
[ That I No Longer Wanted Them In My Ride ]

~ The End ~

[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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[ 192 ][ Money Just Can’t … 3•5•2021 ]

[ A ][° 192 °][ MONEY CAN’t … 3•5•2021 ]

[ Some People Actually Think That Money Can Buy
     Them Love ]
[ Especially If Romance Is Not The Number One Thing
     That They’re Thinking Of ]

[ In Those Situations, Everything Will End ]
[ When There Is No More Money To Spend ]

[ As Long As They Have A Dollar ]
[ They Think That Everyone Is Supposed To Listen
     To Them Holler ]

[ Every Single Day ]
[ They Think That They Have Something Important
     To Say ]

[ When Some Of These People Yell ]
[ They Just Don’t Get The Point That They Are Trying
     To Make, Across Very Well ]

[ Who Would Want To Love Someone When Every Word ]
[ They Said ]
[ Was Never Heard? ]

[ Because The Words ( WAA WAA WAA ) ]
[ Comes Across As Well As ( BLAH BLAH BLAH ) ]

[ Does ]
[ Because ]
[ Money Can’t Ever Buy Someone Friends Or Love ]

~ The End ~

[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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[ 210 ][ Happy Anniversary … 3•14•2021 ]

[ March 16, 2021, Will Be Anniversary Number 25 ]
[ That Will Mean That I Have Been Married To You
     For Almost Half Of The Years That I Have Been Alive ]

[ Here Is A Good Laugh ]
[ I Have Been Married To You In Years More Than Half ]

[ That Is A Whole Lot Of Years ]
[ We Have Worked Through Many Days & Nights Of
    Tears ]

[ Alot Of People That We Thought We Knew ]
[ Did Not Want To Stick Around To Watch Me & You ]

[ Grow As We Aged ]
[ Never Wanted To Watch Us Turn Another Page ]

[ In The Book That We Have Been Writing ]
[ They Would Be Here One Day ]
[ Then There Was Never Another Sighting ]

[ But That Is Quite Okay ]
[ I Say ]
[ Being A Loyal Friend ]
[ Was Not How They Liked To Play ]

[ But That Was Not Your Plan ]
[ Once You Figured Out That I Was Your Man ]

[ Than We Told Your Father & Mother ]
[ When Asked ]
[ I Would Say That I Never Again Wanted To Date Any Other ]

[ We Faced Many Fears … Together ]
[ & Each Time We Came Out Way Better ]
[ Because Some Of Our Burdens ]
[ Were A Whole Lot Heavier Than A Single Feather ]

[ Some People @ The Beginning Never Gave Me A Chance ]
[ But They Never Saw How I Can Dance ]

[ & You Know That Is What I Can Do ]
[ After Dancing With Me A Time Or Two ]

[ Maybe Some Thought That I Was Not Very Capable ]
[ Because Before All Of This ]
[ I Had Never Pulled Up A Chair @ Their Big, Long Table ]

[ Sometimes We Had Tall Mountains To Climb ]
[ But We Succeded, Time After Time ]

[ Then, Because Of That Glorious Day In April Of 2017 ]
[ I Figured Out That I Could Wriite You A Funny Story
     That Rhymed ]
[ But Also Know What They Mean ]

[ My Whole Thought Process Changed It Seemed ]
[ All Of A Sudden I Was Having Rhymes In My Head ]
[ That Screamed ]

[ ( LET ME OUT! ) ]
[ Then That Left Me No Doubt ]
[ That These Are The Things I Needed To Write About ]

[ We Have Gone Through A Lot Of Battles ]
[ But We Continue To Fight The War ]
[ There Has Yet To Be Something That Has Rattled ]
[ Either One Of Us, To The Core ]

[ We Have 25 More Years, Until We Get There ]
[ We Have So Many More Good Times To Share ]
[ So … Do We Dare? ]

[ Try? ]
[ ( YES! ) Says I ]

[ I Love You More Every Day Since I First Said Those Words ]
[ Then When You Said ( I DO! ) ]
[ That Was The Best Answer To A Question That I Had Ever
     Heard ]

[ I Could Learn How To Say ( I LOVE YOU ) In Ten Or
     20 Different Languages ]
[ But All Through The 25 Years ]
[ The Meaning Never Changes ]

[ Sado Omnida ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 254 ][ All Hands. … 3•28•2021 ]

A ][° 254 °][ ALL HANDS … 3•28•2021 ]

[ There Should Be A Call For All Hands On Deck ]
[ & Help To Keep Each Other In Check ]

[ Strangers Are Pulling Guns On Each Other ]
[ Maybe Some Guys Are Avenging The Death Of Their
     Brother ]

[ When All Is Said & Done ]
[ There Are Parents All Over The State ]
[ Making Funeral Arrangements For Their Sons ]

[ One Problem With Bullets Is That They Can’t Control Their
     Direction ]
[ Once The Trigger Is Pulled ]
[ There Cannot Be Any Corrections ]

[ They Go Where They Must ]
[ There Is No Deceiving Or A Lack Of Trust ]

[ They Go Where They Go ]
[ Where They Come To Stop ]
[ You Just Don’t Know ]

[ Will It Be A Head, Leg Or Arm ]
[ That Will Be Harmed? ]

[ Or Will It Be A Wall ]
[ That Takes It All? ]

[ The One Thing About Bullets Is That They Work ]
[ There Are No Behavior Problems Or Weird Quirks ]

[ With All Of These Shootings ]
[ Will Everybody Forget About All Of The Vandalism &
     Looting? ]

[ It Seems Like A Shooting Here & A Murder There ]
[ Would Anybody Care ]

[ But Most Of The Time, That Is Not The Case ]
[ That Also Means ]
[ That Nobody Is Safe ]

~ The End ~

[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
     i kahi hopena ]

[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]

[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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[ 259 ][ A Day In The Life … 3•29•2021 ]

[ Sometimes I Get So Tired I Feel Like I Can See My
     Own Thoughts ]
[ They Are In The Form Of Red & Yellow Spots ]

[ They Don’t Come Out In A Straight Line ]
[ @ Least Not Mine ]

[ Sometimes I Can Pick Out The Spots Of Others ]
[ Sad To Say ]
[ I Saw Some Really Dark Ones, That Were My Biological
     Mothers ]

[ The Mother That Signed Off ]
[ Then Ran Off ]

[ I Began Seeing My Thoughts @ A Very Young Age ]
[ Trying To Find An Outlet For My Rage ]

[ I Had To Learn To Self Soothe ]
[ When Things Were Not Going So Smooth ]

[ Some Days She Would Yell That I Was Cheating ]
[ Because I Always Tried Hide ]
[ When She Would Yell ( IT IS TIME FOR YOUR BEATING! ) ]

[ I Was So So Small ]
[ & I Was So Malnourished I Was Almost Bald ]

[ I Had Good Hiding Spots All Over The House ]
[ This All Started After My Dad Left ]
[ Her Spouse ]

[ Life Is Not Fair When I Am Forced To Sit There & Watch
     My Brother & Sister Eat ]
[ She Won’t Give Me My Shoes Back ]
[ So During Those Days When She Let’s Me Play Outside The
     Gravel Hurts My Feet ]

[ How Has My Stomach Found A Way ]
[ To Be Bulging Out ]
[ When I Have Had So Little Food In The Last 8 Days? ]

[ My Sister Treats Me Good ]
[ When She Takes A Huge Risk ]
[ & Smuggles Me Food ]

[ But I Am Very Sure ]
[ That My Mother Would Never Beat Her ]

[ She Has A Specific Certain Wire Hangar ]
[ That She HITS Me With ]
[ When She Takes Out Her Anger ]

[ Days End So Bad ]
[ After She Has Spent Hours On The Phone ]
[ Yelling @ My Dad ]

[ I Always Hated Those Calls ]
[ Because Then She Would Throw My Toys Against
     The Walls ]

[ I Only Had A Few That Were Not Broken ]
[ Or Taken ]

[ My Hunger Would Always Make Me Cry & Scream ]
[ When It Would Wake Her ]
[ From Her Drunken Stuper ]
[ She Can Be So Mean ]

[ Whenever My Stomach Uncontrollably Growls ]
[ She Gives Me The Hardest Scowl ]

[ Why Don’t I Ever Get Warm, Dry Clothes Like They
     Get? ]
[ The Clothes She Puts On Me Are Always Dirty & Wet ]

[ Yesterday All I Had To Eat Was Mashed Up Bananas
     In A Dirty Bowl ]
[ The Hunger Is Taking It’s Toll ]

[ I Wish The Babysitter Would Just Take Us ]
[ But I Don’t Think She Could Carry Three Kids When She
     Catches Her Bus ]

[ If Any Of Us Would Go ]
[ It Would Be My Brother ]
[ If She Would Ever Be Asked She Would Not Say ( NO ) ]

[ One Night When She Got Off Of The Phone She
     Seemed Quiet & Relieved ]
[ But I Also Heard Her Say ( MAYBE I SHOULD JUST PACK-UP
     & LEAVE ) ]

[ The Next Day I Found It Odd Because She Was Humming ]
[ She Also Said ( YOUR PIECE OF CRAP DAD IS COMING ) ]

[ She Yelled @ Me When We Were In The Car Saying
     ( IN TWO HOURS YOU WILL BE GONE ) ]
[ & ( THEN I CAN FINALLY MOVE ON! ) ]

[ But When We Went ]
[ There Was No Brent ]

[ So She Was True To Her Word ]
[ From That Point ]
[ Her Voice Was Never Ever Heard ]

~ The End ~

[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
     i kahi hopena ]

[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]

[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 256 ][ Yes!… 3•29•2021 ]

[ Today I Went To The Glass Barber Grocery Store ]
[ Not Because I Wanted To See ]
[ Or Wanted A Haircut, Or Hungry Or Bored ]

[ I Looked Up @ The Bicycle Clock ]
[ So I Could Watch The Tires Yell Out The Time ]
[ As I Layed Down & Talked ]

[ As I Slept In The Aisle ]
[ For Over Two Miles ]

[ I Could Not Understand Why The Number Yellow
     Started With The Letter ( P )? ]
[ How Could That Cost Me A $ ]
[ When It Should Had Paid Me A Fee ]

[ Nothing Makes Cents? ]
[ Except Six Pence ]

[ When I Got To The Chicken In The Aisle I Went To The
     Door To Let Her Out ]
[ She Was Crying & Had The Saddest Pout ]

[ So Then I Went Back To Surfing On My Tricycle Up & Down
     The Bowling Courts ]
[ I Never Imagined ]
[ That I Could Ever Be This Good @ Wearing Tight, Bikini Shorts ]

[ Knew When I Woke Up Last Yesterday That I Shaved My
     Legs For A Reason ]
[ Afterall ]
[ Every Day Is The Start Of Bikini Season ]

[ I Just Do What I Do ]
[ & When I Put Soda In My Mouth ]
[ I Chew ]

[ But My Grocery Shoplifting Was Not Done ]
[ Whenever I Wear Thermal Socks With My Stilleto Heels ]
[ I Can’t Run ]
[ But Trying, Sure Feels … ]
[ … Fun ]

[ Off To The Service Shop To Fill Up My Shopping Bags With
     Premium Gas ]
[ It Is Always Free ]
[ When I Press My Bare Ass ]
[ Up Against The Glass ]

[ & There Is Alot Of Money I Save ]
[ When I Behave ]
[ While I Am Being Shaved ]

[ My Head Comes Out Bald & Feeling Nice ]
[ I Liked How He Shaved Me The First Time ]
[ So I Walked By There Twice ]

[ This Story Keeps Going Up & Down ]
[ Around & Around ]
[ It Is Meant To Make You Smile ]
[ Not Frown ]

~ The End ~

[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
     i kahi hopena ]

[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]

[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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