[ So I Hear You Called 911 To Get Some One To Help ]
[ They Said That They Can’t ]
[ Because Everyone Has Been Fired Because Of Bad Remarks
On Yelp ]
[ There Are No Police Cars To Send Because None Of Them
Are In Working Condition ]
[ They All Were Damaged During The Peaceful Demonstrations ]
[ No One Is Held Accountable For The Bottles That Were Thrown ]
[ You Too Can Throw Bricks ]
[ & Then Hide Virtually To Stay Unknown ]
[ Nails Thrown Down Went Well With All Of The Sticks ]
[ We Can’t Move Any Police Cars Because All Of The Tires Were
Blown ]
[ Gathering Into The Night ]
[ Is Your Constitutional Right ]
[ & When Everyone Sees The Damage ]
[ They All Say ( OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT ) ]
[ Because Violence Really Gets Your Point Across ]
[ Go Damage All You Want ]
[ Because You Go Home Not Bothered, Because It Is Not Your Loss ]
[ Has The Meaning Of The Demonstration Been Lost? ]
[ On Some Businesses Being Closed ]
[ Because They Can’t Afford The Cost? ]
[ Now Don’t Call That 911 Dispatcher A Bold Face Liar ]
[ Because She Said That The Fire Department Will Not Go
Anywhere That’s Violent ]
[ No Matter The Size Of The Fire ]
[ They Say That It’s Too Bad That A Violent Gang Is Robbing
You ]
[ Maybe They’ll Stop ]
[ After They Take Your Expensive Nike Tennis Shoes ]
[ Go Buy Yourself Some Guns To Use For Your
Own Protection ]
[ Oh, But First You Must Say ]
[ You Will Need A Demonstration? ]
[ But Didn’t That Lying 911 Operator Make It Perfectly Clear ]
[ They Fired All Of The Police ]
[ So There Is Nobody Here ]
[ Oh, You Don’t Like The Violence? ]
[ Because It Makes You Tear ]
[ Now That All Of The Police Got Fired ]
[ You Can Now Live In Actual Fear ]
[ The 911 Operator Did Not Taunt ]
[ When She Said That Through Public Pressure The Police
Department Was Closed ]
[ So The Public Could Get What They Want ]
[ So Now The 911 Dispatcher Only Wants To Give The Public
The Best ]
[ That The Public Wants To Pay For ]
[ Now That It Is The Wild Wild West ]
[ You Spend More Time Layng Unconscious On The Floor ]
[ Before The 911 Operator Wishes You Luck ]
[ Where The Crime Rate Really Sucks ]
[ She Said ( THANK YOU FOR CALLING … JUST REMEMBER
TO DUCK ) ]
[ So As You Look @ Your Phone ]
[ & All You Hear Is The Dial Tone ]
[ I Ask ( HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE TRULY ON YOUR OWN? ) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
Category: [ 2020 Stories ]
(532)▪︎[ What Build-Up? … 6•1•2020 ]
[ People Build You Up, Then Try To Break You Down ]
[ First You Are The Hero ]
[ Then They Try To Make You Into A Clown ]
[ They Would Even Paint The Frown On Your Face ]
[ & Then Take You Place To Place ]
[ Treating Like You Are A Disgrace ]
[ Who Do You Trust, Who? ]
[ How Many, Two? ]
[ One More Than A Few ]
[ You Never Turn Your Back On Anyone ]
[ If You Let Your Guard Down ]
[ …You’re Done ]
[ & Then ]
[ You Say { SANITY, SANITY WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? } ]
[ You Feel It Coming Back ]
[ But When? ]
[ Little By Little, Bit By Bit ]
[ You Try To Light A Fire Under Yourself ]
[ But It Won’t Stay Lit ]
[ Why Do Others Try To Break You Down, Why? ]
[ You Don’t Want To Be A Hero ]
[ You Want To Be Just A Regular Guy ]
[ Lie After Lie, Is What You Have Been Told ]
[ It Turns You Cold ]
[ & Makes You Feel Old ]
[ So How Do You Get Out Of This Whirlwind Mess? ]
[ You Thought You Were Blessed ]
[ Because Everybody Said ( YES ) ]
[ But You Figured Out Why They Did ]
[ Their True Intentions ]
[ Were Usually Hid ]
[ Now Everything Is Coming Out Of Wherever It Was Hiding ]
[ Is This How Your Worlds ]
[ Will Be Colliding? ]
[ The Worlds Of Real & Make-Believe ]
[ Is This The Point In Your Life ]
[ Where You Want To Leave? ]
[ What Is Real ]
[ What Is Fake
[ Whatever You Feel ]
[ Can You Take? ]
[ Reality Is A Transitional Thing ]
[ @ Your Wake, What Will They Bring? ]
[ Will They Sing? ]
[ All Of This, Must Be A Dream ]
[ Because Now You Hear The Telephone Ring ]
[ You Answer It Because Nobody Else Is Home ]
[ All You Get Is A Dial Tone ]
[ Once Again You’re Home All Alone ]
[ Lift Yourself Up ]
[ Dust Yourself Off ]
[ Drink Water From A Cup ]
[ To Get Rid Of That Cough ]
[ Learn To Rejoice When You Are All By Yourself ]
[ Show Yourself That You Don’t Always ]
[ Need To Be Entertained By Someone Else ]
[ Listen To The Silence ]
[ Feel Your Heart Beat ]
[ You Don’t Want Any Part Of The Violence ]
[ That Is Erupting On State Street ]
[ Turn Off The Light ]
[ & Then Try To Sleep Through The Night ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(531)▪︎[ How Can I … 6•1•2020 ]
[ How Do You Say ( I’m SORRY ) To Someone Who Has A Different
Colored Face? ]
[ How Can I Empathize ]
[ With Someone When I’ve Never Been In Their Place? ]
[ If Someone Asks Me ( WHAT RACE ARE YOU? ) ]
[ I Tell Them ( SLOW ) ]
[ So I Can See What They Say Or Do ]
[ I’ve Never Walked A Mile In Their Shoes ]
[ Because That’s Something ]
[ That I Literally CAN’t Do ]
[ & They Can Never Walk A Mile In Mine ]
[ Because Being As Short As I Am ]
[ I’m Dismissed & Overlooked ]
[ Time After Time ]
[ We All Put Up With Being Screwed ]
[ By Other People ]
[ Who Have That Incredible Urge To Be Downright Rude ]
[ I Didn’t Grow Up Being Worried, Wary Or Scared Of The
Police ]
[ To Tell You The Truth ]
[ I Get More Irritated & Annoyed By My Niece ( NOT You Sanoe ) ]
[ If A Cop Pulls Up Behind Me On The Street ]
[ I’ve Never Been Worried ]
[ About Being Arrested, Shot Or Beat ]
[ So As Long As We Are Being Real ]
[ I Think That It Is A Big Deal ]
[ To Observe & Say ]
[ I DON’t Know How You Feel ]
[ & It Would Also Be, Just As Disrespectful For Others To Say ]
[ That They See Things My Way ]
[ Our Past Has Molded Us Into The People We Now Are ]
[ But I Don’t Think A Tragedy ]
[ Gives People Permission To Vandalize & Torch Others Cars ]
[ I’ve Never Lied ]
[ By Saying I Can See Everything From Your Side ]
[ My Life & World Experiences ]
[ Have Never Been That Wide ]
[ Your Issues Have Always Been Yours ]
[ I Can Never Say Let Me See Them ]
[ Do You Give Tours? ]
[ Just Like The Difference Between Genders Is A List A Mile
Long ]
[ Both Genders Can Be Right Or Wrong ]
[ Weak & Strong ]
[ Everyone Has Their Strengths & Times When They Are Weak ]
[ Some Are Good @ Listening ]
[ While Others Say Some Profound Words When They Speak ]
[ My Biggest Wish ]
[ Is That Everyone Can Find Their Niche ]
[ So How Can It Be ]
[ That All Of This Affects You ]
[ More Than All Of This Affects Me? ]
[ I Think It All Comes Down To ]
[ What We Individually See ]
[ & That All Circles Back On How & Where We Were Raised ]
[ What Also Comes Into This ]
[ Is Were We Constantly Berated ]
[ Or Constantly Praised ]
[ So As Far As I Can See ]
[ There Are Lots Of Good Reasons ]
[ How & Why We Can Agree ]
[ To Be Able To Disagree ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(609)▪︎[ It Began Well … 7•6•2020 ]
A[ The Day Began Well ]
[ Why It Went Left ]
[ I Could Not Tell ]
[ Was This Something On Which I Wanted To Dwell? ]
[ Maybe What Is To Blame ]
[ Is The Hours That I Spend On That Game ]
[ Maybe It Is Predictable ]
[ That It Would Be So Addictable ]
[ One Game Leads To Four ]
[ That Is Not Enough ]
[ So I Play Many More ]
[ Sometimes It Only Takes Two Minutes To Complete ]
[ Sometimes Words Will Always Repeat ]
[ Those Are The Easy Ones To Find ]
[ I See The First Two Letters ]
[ That Drift Into My Mind ]
[ Then I Have To Remember ]
[ To Hit Rewind ]
[ But The Day Started Off Alright ]
[ But The Day ]
[ Turned Into Night ]
[ & In A Small Way ]
[ Lost Its Light ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(575)▪︎[ Watch Out … 6•21•2019 ]
[ So Now If That Doesn’t Take The Cake ]
[ I Wouldn’t Know The Shake ]
[ From The Bake ]
[ I Don’t Understand What She Is Trying To Say ]
[ This Morning ]
[ About Working Today ]
[ I Just Don’t Want Her Sitting On Her Tush ]
[ & Then Beating Around The Bush ]
[ This Would Be How ]
[ She Will Burst My Bubble About Her Now ]
[ I Just Want Things To Be Real ]
[ When She Is Making A Big Deal ]
[ About The Accident In Her Sisters Car ]
[ So Would She Rather Be Getting Drunk ]
[ In Their Favorite Bar? ]
[ Well, Sorry To Be The One To Dampen ]
[ The Mood ]
[ But That Is Not Going To Happen ]
[ Today, Dude ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(607)▪︎[ The Want … 7•5•2020 ]
[ The Wait Is Excruciatingly Slow ]
[ Oh The Things That We Don’t Know ]
[ Everything Hangs On The Results Of A Test ]
[ This Is One That You Can’t Study For ]
[ To Give It Your Best ]
[ Everything Hangs On A Negative Result ]
[ & Saying I Have No Control ]
[ Is Not An Insult ]
[ I Am Not A Control Freak By Any Means ]
[ Even Though Wanting Control Is How This All Seems ]
[ I Have Never Had Control Here, Where I Live ]
[ I Try To Work Around What I Give ]
[ I Try To Give More Than I Take ]
[ I Am Definitely Sincere ]
[ Not Fake ]
[ When I Say I Give It’s Because That Is What I Want ]
[ To Do ]
[ It Is Not A Taunt ]
[ Directed @ You ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(606)▪︎[ The Booms … 7•5•2020 ]
[ The Booms Are So Loud & So Close ]
[ Where Are They All Coming From? ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ To Some It Is Entertaining ]
[ But To Others ]
[ It Is Frightening ]
[ I Should Get Used To This Sound Every Single Year ]
[ But It Still Creates Fear ]
[ There Is Nobody Out There ]
[ That Really Cares ]
[ I Would Like To Unexpectedly Share ]
[ This Scare ]
[ It Doesn’t Mean A Single Thing ]
[ To Those People ]
[ On What The Loud Booms Bring ]
[ There Is Nothing To Do ]
[ But Sit Here & Listen To The Continuous Booms ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(605)▪︎[ Alone … 7•4•2020 ]
[ Being Alone All Day Has A Bad Affect On Me ]
[ It Causes My Mind To See ]
[ How Bad Things Can Seem ]
[ But I Have To Remind ]
[ Myself ]
[ That I Need To Be The Kind ]
[ Of Person Not To Rely On Someone Else ]
[ Do I Need To Make A Statement ]
[ & Become Very Independent? ]
[ It Is Clear ]
[ That Won’t Go Over To Well Here ]
[ Am I Supposed To Live My Life? ]
[ Being Dependent On My Wife? ]
[ I Am Really Sure ]
[ That Is Not Fair To Her ]
[ One Way That I Spend My Time ]
[ Throughout The Day & Night ]
[ Is Writing Rhyme After Rhyme ]
[ Not All Of Them Are Good But Not All Are Bad ]
[ If That Was The Case ]
[ I’d Be Kind Of Sad ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(601)▪︎[ Up & Down … 7•3•2020 ]
[ Up & Down & Around The World Goes ]
[ What Will Happen Tomorrow? ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ It Is Understandable ]
[ That Things Can Be Unpredictable ]
[ Just When You Think You Have The Answers Right ]
[ They Switch Around The Order Of The Questions ]
[ After They Turn Off The Light ]
[ In The Dark ]
[ You Can Get Lost ]
[ & Totally Forget About Where You’ve Parked ]
[ Do You Leave A Trail Of Crumbs For A Path? ]
[ Was Geography Your Favorite Subject? ]
[ Or Was Math? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(597)▪︎[ What You Do … 7•1•2020 ]
[ You Lift Me Up, When I Feel Down ]
[ You Are Always Right There ]
[ When I Turn Around ]
[ In My Younger Years I Always Had This Dream In My Head ]
[ That Some Day When I Found Mrs. Right ]
[ We Would Wed ]
[ But I Dated A Whole Lot Of Mrs. Wrongs Instead! ]
[ It Wasn’t Until 31 Years Had Gone By In My Life ]
[ That I Finally Met The Beautiful Woman ]
[ That Would Become My Wife ]
[ Who Knew I Would Meet Mrs. Right In An Employee
Lunch Room? ]
[ But I Was A Shallow Man Back Then ]
[ I Didn’t Hear Bottle Rockets Go Boom ]
[ We Met Again & We Found That She Was Moving Into
The Same Apartment Complex That I Lived In ]
[ & That Is Where The Friendship Would Begin ]
[ We Would Meet & Talk For Hours On End ]
[ I Truly Liked Talking With My Friend ]
[ But I Was Sure ]
[ That I Really Wanted To Be A Good Friend To Her ]
[ But Then Came The Day When The Romance Would Start ]
[ After That Day I Felt In My Heart ]
[ That I Never, Ever Wanted Us To Be Apart ]
[ Then I Worried About All Of The Ideas & Words Coming Out
Of My Mouth ]
[ Would Ruin A Really Good Friendship ]
[ & Make Her Pack Up & Head South ]
[ I Wanted To Look In Her Beautiful Eyes ]
[ & Let Her Know That I Was Not One Of Those Guys ]
[ & Fill Her Head With Lies ]
[ Instead Of Running Away, She Walked Towards Me ]
[ I Knew Right Then Who I Wanted Her To Eventually Be ]
[ But I Had To Fly To Alaska For A Friends Wedding To Have
Her Ring Fall Into My Hands ]
[ It Was The Bride To Be First Wedding Set ]
[ Without Any Specific Payback Demands ]
[ I Did Make It Clear ]
[ That It Would Definitly Take Me A Couple Of Years ]
[ So What Was My Wish? ]
[ When Did I Want To Do This ]
[ So The Date Was Set ]
[ In Mind ]
[ So I Had A Secret ]
[ From Her ]
[ But This Was The Best Kind ]
[ I Wanted To Find A Way ]
[ To Ask Her To Marry Me On Christmas Day ]
[ So I Did ]
[ & This Is How We Now Live ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
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