(025)▪︎[ Complicated World … 1•16•2023 ]

[ It Is Such A Complicated World Outside Of Your Door ]
[ So Much So ]
[ It Does Not Seem Safe To Go Out There Anymore ]

[ You Have Heard That It Is A Requirement All Throughout Town ]
[ You Cannot Address Anyone ]
[ Unless You Know Their Appropriate Pro-Nouns ]

[ All Of That Sounds Confusing From The 1st Letter ]
[ You Kind Of Wish Someone Could Explain It Better ]

[ The Last Thing That You Want To Do Is Offend Someone ]
[ No, Not Anyone ]

[ You Made That Mistake Once & You Felt Bad ]
[ The Non-Binary Corrected You Nicely ]
[ & You Were Glad ]

[ You Guess They Could Have Been Rude ]
[ From What You Can Conclude ]

[ They Probably Run Into That Alot ]
[ You Wouldn’t Envy Being Put On That Spot ]

[ You Thought That You Had Heard That There Might Be A New
Currency ]
[ The Currency Was Called Bitcoin ]
[ But You Heard That The Bottom Fell Out Recently ]

[ You Guess That The New Does Not Always Cancel The Old ]
[ Covering Up With A Blanket ]
[ Does Not Always Work When Someone Is Cold ]

[ Are The New Electrical Cars Better Than Ones That Run On
Gas? ]
[ What Is Next? ]
[ Cars That Run On Cut Grass? ]

[ The Whole World Seems To Be Upside Down ]
[ People Are Moving To The Country ]
[ Away From Downtown ]

[ Up Is Down & Down Is Up ]
[ Are Plates Going To Replace A Cup? ]

[ Just Wait, News & Film @ (2300)hrs ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(004)▪︎[ A True Politician … 1•3•2023 ]

[ Show Me An Honest Politician & I Will Show You An Illusion ]
[ If It Is A True Politician ]
[ They Wouldn’t Mind The Intrusion ]

[ The Only Time That They Tell The Truth ]
[ Is When They Step, Into The Voting Booth ]

[ & Then Vote For Themself ]
[ But Not, For Anyone Else ]

[ They Only Worry About One ]
[ After That, They Are Done ]

[ They Will Shake Your Hand, While Taking Your Wallet ]
[ Out Of Your Back Pocket ]

[ They Are So Fast ]
[ You Will Make A Donation ]
[ Without Being Asked ]

[ They Learned To Campaign @ A Very Early Age ]
[ When They Were Young, Their Parents Thought That It Was All
A Phase ]

[ First They Play Things Cool ]
[ By Running For Class President ]
[ During Their Senior Year In High School ]

[ When They Are Out Of School, They Run For Mayor, Of Their Tiny, Little City ]
[ People Think That They Are Good Looking ]
[ & Quite Whitty ]

[ Is Their Goal The Capital Of Their State? ]
[ That Just Seems, Like A Swinging Gate ]

[ Their Ultimate Goal, Is To Serve Their State, By Being @ The White House ]
[ They Know That A Divorced Politician Does Not Look Good ]
[ That Is The Only Reason, They Stay Married To Their Spouse ]

[ They Do Not Really Want To Work, A Mainstream Position ]
[ Asking Them To Get A Job ]
[ Would Be Like Telling Them, To Wash The Dishes ]

[ It Would Be A Good Bet ]
[ That They Would Complain, It Is Below Their Skill-Set ]

[ Most Politicians Know How To Do The Dance ]
[ Of Arrogance ]

[ They Walk Around Thinking That They Have The Election In The Bag ]
[ They Were Way Too Optimistic ]
[ Because The Move Was Way Before They Were Tagged ]

[ They Think That They Can Always Win, Because Of Their Name ]
[ Or Brand ]
[ They Forgot How To Play The Game ]
[ They Did Not Shake The Correct Hand ]

[ The Politician Must Learn The Art Of Hand Shaking ]
[ Just Like A New Chef ]
[ They Must Learn The Art Of Pastry Baking ]

[ They Are Always On The Campaign Trail ]
[ That Is The Reason For All Of The Political Mail ]

[ That Over Flows Your Mailboxes Everyday ]
[ You Wish That You Could Put A Stop To It ]
[ But The Junk Mail Always Finds A Way ]

[ To Your Address ]
[ Collecting On Your Counter ]
[ Causing Quite The Mess ]

[ Usually A Career Politician Plays It Down To The Wire ]
[ Most Of The Time They Die ]
[ Before They Ever Thought To Retire ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(005)▪︎[ What Do You Think? … 1•4•2023 ]

[ Do You Ever Really Wonder How Your Brain Thinks ]
[ (YOU HAVE NO IDEA! ) You’d Say ]
[ With A Chuckle & 2 Winks ]

[ Oftentimes Thoughts Come Into Your Head & Will Stay ]
[ Then It Tells You Exactly What It Wants To Say ]

[ Sometimes You Should Go Left But Your Thoughts Turn Right ]
[ Then Your Hand Shows You What Is What ]
[ As Your Stylus Shows You What It Wants To Write ]

[ Part Of You Doesn’t Know What’s Going On ]
[ You Can’t Figure Out Where It’s Going ]
[ But You Can See How Far It’s Gone ]

[ You Have No Idea If You Made Your Point Strong ]
[ Or Do You Figure Out That What You Just Wrote ]
[ Was Completely Wrong ]

[ But You Write About Your Thoughts ]
[ You Never Said That You Were Seeing Spots ]
[ Or Dots ]

[ Your Stylus Goes Wherever It Wants To Go ]
[ Whenever You Start ]
[ You Just Won’t Know ]

[ If You Go In That Direction ]
[ Will That Be Correct ]
[ Or Will You Need To Make A Correction? ]
[ That Seems More Direct? ]

[ You Can’t Go Backwards But You Can Delete ]
[ That Does Not Mean That You Are Giving Up ]
[ & Feel The Sting Of Defeat ]

[ It Is Just Because Your Thought Wants To Go That Way ]
[ You Will Need To Save That Other Thought ]
[ For A Different Day ]

[ But If You Try To Save It, You Will Bet ]
[ That A Different Thought Will Come In ]
[ Than That Will Make You Forget ]
[ When A Thought Begins ]
[ You Must Stay Set ]

[ Sometimes Thoughts Just Float On By ]
[ No Time For A Cup Of Coffee ]
[ No Time To Say (HI) ]

[ Maybe That Thought Will Come To You @ A Different Time ]
[ Leading Your Stylus To Write A Totally Different Story That
Rhymes ]

[ Every Day Is A New Day In Your Crazy Mind ]
[ But Will It Be The Lazy Kind? ]

[ When Your Thoughts Are Like Jello ]
[ They Take Only A Minutes Of Rest ]
[ Before They Say (HELLO) ]

[ Than Just Like That, They Float On By ]
[ & You Figured That Out A Long Time Ago ]
[ So You Should Not Ask (WHY?) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(105)▪︎[ Seems Plausible … 2•25•2023 ]

[ She Says That She Is Confused By What You Say ]
[ Has She Been This Confused The Whole Day? ]

[ You Talk About Simple Things ]
[ Is She Living In Fantasy Land? ]
[ Where She Is Waiting For Her Prince Charming & (3) Kings? ]

[ Her Mind Has Not Been In The Same Room Since You Don’t
When ]
[ She Comes Into The Room, Blinks Twice & Then? ]

[ Loses Her Ability To Concentrate ]
[ @ This Time & Place ]
[ She Would Not Be A Good Teammate ]

[ You Always Hope That Her Confused Brain Will Tell Her Body
That She Must Breathe ]
[ You Wish That A Long Time Ago ]
[ Her Brain Would Have Told Her That She Must Leave ]

[ Jon Was A Threat To Your Marriage In So Many Ways ]
[ It Still Has A Grip On Her On Most Days ]

[ She Says That She Does Not Think Of Him ]
[ The Prospect Of That Happening Are Pretty Slim ]

[ As Slim As An Empty Note Pad ]
[ She Still Wishes She Could Have ]
[ What She Had ]

[ Was He Older Than Her ]
[ Or Were They Around The Same Age? ]
[ That Did Not Seem To Matter ]
[ That, You Are Sure ]

[ How Exactly Does She Think That She Would Ever Get Him Off
Of Her Mind ]
[ She Is Not The Forgetful Kind ]

[ It Is Laughable How She Goes Back Forth ]
[ One Day It Was An Affair, Another Day He Was Just A Friend ]
[ That Would Be Like You Are Going South, But Then You Headed
North ]

[ All Of That Caused Her To Cringe ]
[ Then It Seemed Like She Came Unhinged ]

[ They Say That Most Affairs Break Down Their Partner’s Trust ]
[ That Seems To Be Why Some Marriages Bust ]
[ Maybe Because The Affair Was Built On Lust ]

[ The Couple Should Go To Marriage Counseling As Fast As
Humanly Possible ]
[ Could The Marriage Be Saved? ]
[ That Seems Very Plausible ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(128)▪︎[ When Your Time Is Up … 2•15•2022 ]

[ You Might Be Able To Manipulate Mother Nature, But You
Cannot Do A Thing, To Father Time ]
[ You Cannot Borrow, An Hour ]
[ You Will Not Always Find ]
[ A Lost Dime ]

[ There Are Some Extremely Tall Mountains, Where Nature Does Not Welcome Everyman To Climb To The Top ]
[ She Plays Guessing Games, When Some Men, Do Not See Where The Snow Stops ]

[ The Higher Up The Mountain, The Air Gets Thin ]
[ That Could Be The Point That Trouble With Your Breathing, Could Begin ]
[ You Must Have Total Control Of When You Breathe In ]

[ Or Exhale Out ]
[ When It Comes To Climbing One Of These Mountains, You
Better Not Have Any Doubt ]
[ You Could Fall Into A Deep Crevasse, Where No One Could Hear You Shout ]
[ Out ]

[ Before Even Starting To Pack, You Need To Think About Your Climbing Skills ]
[ You Have Heard That Bad Judgement, Kills ]
[ Making Your Kids Hope That They Were In Your Most Current Will ]

[ Something That Is Not Very Fun ]
[ Avalanches That Occur On Mountains ]
[ That You Cannot Outrun ]

[ You Can Never Fool Father Time, @ All ]
[ You Cannot Ask For More Time When You Get Your Final Call ]

[ You Cannot Punch Back, When Your Ticket Gets Punched ]
[ Nobody Has Ever Seen Someone Taking The Grim Reaper Out For
A Last Lunch ]

[ When Your Time Is Up, You Never (GET ONE MORE … ) Anything ]
[ It Would Not Matter, If Your Title Is That Of The Queen ]
[ Or The King ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(442)▪︎[ Nobody Has … 5•2•2020 ]

[ Nobody Knows The Trouble That You’ve Seen ]
[ Do They Also Know ]
[ That People Can Be So Mean? ]

[ Sometimes They Distract You By Asking About Your Views ]
[ Like Sports & The Virus ]
[ & About The People In The News ]

[ You Sit There Wondering Why They Asked The Things That
They Did ]
[ Usually Your Mouth Stays As Shut As A Tight Lid ]
[ On A Pressure Cooker ]
[ But You Were As Talkative As A Young Kid ]

[ What Was Up With That? ]
[ Usually You Keep Your Opinion ]
[ Under Your Baseball Hat ]

[ So What Gives? ]
[ Secrecy Is How You Live ]

[ It Took Three Years Before You Opened Up ]
[ For Most Of Those Days ]
[ You Kept Your Mouth Shut ]

[ You Never Let Another Person Play You As The Fool! ]
[ For As Long As You’ve Been Friends ]
[ You’ve Never Seen Someone Get One Over On You ]

[ Unless You Were Doing A Little Misdirection Of Your Own ]
[ You Seriously Did Not Understand Your Tone ]

[ That Was So Out Of Character ]
[ You Were Acting & Talking So Professional ]
[ You Could Have Been A Lawyer Or A Doctor ]

[ You Were Acting Just Like Your Characters In The School Plays ]
[ Oh, You Know That You Remember Those Days ]

[ When Everyone Was Curious ]
[ If You Were Deep In Thought ]
[ Or Furious ]

[ So They Thought That They Were Getting Over On You ]
[ When All Along ]
[ They Were The Ones That Were Getting Screwed ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(441)▪︎[ Who Is Whom? … 5•2•2020 ]

[ Do You Know Who Is Stabbing Who ]
[ While They Are Shaking Hands With Whom? ]
[ Will It Really Bother You? ]
[ To Know Who Just Left The Room? ]

[ When He Left, He Just Walked On By ]
[ He Neither Said (HI) ]
[ Or (GOODBYE) ]

[ Why Was That, You Wonder Out Loud? ]
[ It Is Not Like You Were In The Middle Of A Crowd ]

[ Then You Could See ]
[ How He Would Not Want To Be Seen ]

[ After What He Just Did To Someone You Consider A Friend ]
[ & Then He Asked You ]
[ (WHERE DOES THIS END?) ]

[ You Wonder Why ]
[ Did He Lie? ]

[ What Did He Have To Gain? ]
[ Why Was He Acting So Vain? ]
[ When He Was Inflicting Pain? ]

[ Why Did He Seem So Pleased? ]
[ When He Was Pulling Up Weeds? ]

[ He Did Not Have The Willpower ]
[ To Learn The Differences ]
[ Between One Flower ]
[ & Another On The Other Side Of The Two Fences ]

[ Will You Ever Trust ]
[ Him Ever Again? ]
[ Though It’s Not A Must ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(032)▪︎[ A Second Stop … 1•12•2023 ]

[ Pacific City Was The Second Stop ]
[ The First Was Burger King ]
[ So You Could Get A Couple Sandwiches & A Pop ]

[ The Sand Seemed To Be Never Ending ]
[ Then Bending ]

[ Around The Corner Of The Water ]
[ The Air Was Cool Enough ]
[ Without The Need To Be Any Hotter ]

[ There Were Clusters Of Clouds Here & There ]
[ We Walked On The Sand ]
[ Without A Concern In The Air ]

[ Or A Single Worry On Your Mind ]
[ @ Least ]
[ Not The Concerning Kind ]

[ Then It Was Off To The Sands Lake Recreational Area Spot ]
[ We Found It Closed ]
[ & When We Looked On The Map ]
[ It Was Just Another Dot ]

[ Anderson View Point Had Quite The View ]
[ & The Scenery Was So Beautiful Too ]

[ Then It Was Quite The Drive ]
[ To Oceanside ]

[ We Took Some Selfie’s Of Ourselves ]
[ Because We Didn’t Want To Take A Picture ]
[ Of Anyone Else ]

[ Now We Are Off ]
[ To See The Lighthouse ]
[ Up On Top ]

[ The Old Oregon Smokehouse Seafood Market Was Where
We Stopped & Ate ]
[ & The Fish -n Chips Tasted Great ]

[ The Fresh Fish Was Battered Just Right ]
[ It Was Not Too Heavy ]
[ It Was Not Too Light ]

[ Who Knows Where This Road Will Take Us ]
[ Because Our Car ]
[ Is Not A Tourist Bus ]

[ The Fish Peddlar Was Just On The Other Side Of
The Street Now ]
[ The Color Of The Building Makes You Go (WOW!) ]

[ The Seagulls Are Flying Everywhere ]
[ Floating On The Air ]

[ An Old Man Has Been Feeding Them Bread ]
[ He Even Put A Large Piece On His Head ]

[ Now He Is Playing The Harmonica Making A Very
Irritating Sound ]
[ He Chased Away The People ]
[ That Were Just Sitting On The Ground ]

[ Even Through His Sunglass Tint ]
[ He Failed To Take The Hint? ]

[ A Late Night Meal @ A Beach Denny’s ]
[ For You & Your Friend ]
[ It Definitely Wasn’t As Good ]
[ As You Remembered It To Be ]

[ There Was Only One Thing Missing ]
[ During Our Trip ]
[ & That Was The Daily Event Of The Sun & Water Kissing ]

[ The Clouds Are Too Low ]
[ & They Are Moving Too Slow ]

[ She Was Amazed That You Were Still Awake & Alive ]
[ For This Long Of A Drive ]

[ But Once Again You Had A Blast ]
[ Even With The Time Flying By So Fast ]
[ You Know That The Memories Of Being @ The Beach
With Your Best Friend ]
[ Will Forever Last ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(1093)▪︎[ A Hitch … 12•30•2021 ]

[ Well That’s (10) Minutes That You Won’t Get Back! ]
[ Then You Give That Someone Who Took Your Time
Some Flack? ]

[ How Many Times Have You Said That In Anger? ]
[ Wouldn’t You Want To Put That On A Hangar? ]

[ Hang It Up In The Broom Closet ]
[ Where You Keep Your Tennis Racket ]
[ & Fishing Net? ]

[ You Bet You Wish You Could Deal With Your Anger As
Easy As That? ]
[ Could You Also Have The (9) Lives Of A Cat? ]

[ You Wish That Positive Energy Could Transfer Over As Easily As
Making A Wish? ]
[ But, There Would Always Be A Hitch ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1092)▪︎[ Such Bad Years … 12•30•2021 ]

[ It Was Funny ]
[ Like When The Eggs Were A Little Too Runny ]

[ When You Were Looking Over Some Stories That You
Have Written In The Past ]
[ You Saw A Story That Was About How Bad The Year (2019)
Was ]
[ That Made You Laugh ]

[ If They Knew What The Years Of (2020) & (2021) Had In Store ]
[ They Would Want To Skip Forward & Go Straight To The Year
(2024) ]

[ If (2020) Was Not (1) Of The Good Years ]
[ & (2021) Gave Us Alot Of Fears ]
[ Will Year (2022) Cause Alot Of Tears? ]

[ You Do Not Say (OKAY, BUT …) ]
[ Or Look Blankly & Ask (OKAY … WHAT?) ]

[ If You Jump (2) Years, It Would Give The World Time To
Regenerate ]
[ Then (2) Years Would Be A Long Enough Wait ]

[ For The World To Get Back On Its Regular Axis ]
[ No, But Not For More Taxes ]

[ When (2020) & (2021) Caused Some People’s Knees To Buckle ]
[ Seeing The First Line Of That Story Made You Chuckle ]

[ What The Hell Was Wrong With (2019?) ]
[ You Bet The Next (2) Years Must Have Really Made You Scream! ]
[ Nothing About Those (2) Years Was Any Positive Part Of
Your Dream ]

[ That You Ever Had ]
[ (YES VIRGINIA, THEY WERE THAT BAD!) ]

[ Looking Back Over (2021) ]
[ You Were Just Glad That You Still Did Not Own A Gun ]

[ You Would Have Shot One Or The Other ]
[ It Would Have Definitely Been The One Who NEVER Had A
Brother ]

[ Looking Back, You Can’t See What Was Wrong With (2019)
To Complain About ]
[ Because Year (2020) Made You Shout ]
[ & Year (2021) Definitely Made You Pass Out ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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