[ Yes, She’s The Bitch, She’s The Bitch ]
[ She’s The Bitch That Wears Black ]
[ She’s Stone Cold Sober ]
[ As A Heart Attack ]
[ When She Walks Around She Sets Down Clues ]
[ That In Her Eyes ]
[ That Makes Her Much Better Than You ]
[ In Her Mind ]
[ She Is Of The Better Kind ]
[ She Is So Dangerous ]
[ Because Her Kind Is So Cancerous ]
[ It’s The Way That She Grooves ]
[ That Makes The Transiton Go Really Smooth ]
[ & With Her Sultry Moves ]
[ She’s Got Nothing To Prove ]
[ Around Every Blind Corner ]
[ She Runs For The Border ]
[ She’s Not Pretty Enough For Pop ]
[ & She’s Not Cool Enough For Indie Rock ]
[ That’s Why Her Everyday Shoes ]
[ Has Her Singing The Blues ]
[ But Now She Knows ]
[ That She Can’t Go Where The Hip People Goes ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2021 Stories ]
(604)▪︎[ Memories … 7•22•2021 ]
[ I Want To Grow Old With Memories That Make Me
Smile ]
[ I Don’t Want My Memories To Last Only For Awhile ]
[ I Remember My Wedding Day ]
[ Like It Was Yesterday ]
[ Seeing My Beautiful Bride ]
[ Standing Up On The Alter ]
[ Getting Me To Tear Up & Making My Smile Get So Wide ]
[ Seeing Friends That Are In My Life & ]
[ & Were Before I Met My Wife ]
[ Our Time In Jamaica, The Blue Water & The White Sand ]
[ Being Carefree By Not Wearing A Watch ]
[ Making Zero Time Demands ]
[ My Time With My Wife When It Was Just Us Two ]
[ Driving Around Washington For Two Days ]
[ Because We Had No Plans For Anything To Do ]
[ Being In Your Parents Kitchen To Overhear ( THAT
STARTED TRYING ) ]
[ Having The Nurse Put Our Newborn Son In My Arms
& I Wouldn’t Stop Crying ]
[ Then Being @ Camp Attitude & Getting On A Horse @
The Same Time As My Son ]
[ It Was A Big Deal To Even Get On One ]
[ That Was When B.D. Came Running To Me Yelling
( YOU DID IT! YOU DID IT! ) ]
[ Yes, I Did Do It ]
[ I Remember Getting Bucked Off One Horse & Then Almost
Getting In The Head ]
[ That Was When I Was About (5) Years Old @ A Foster
Home ]
[ That Was The Night One Of The Parent’s Son Wanted
Me Dead ]
[ I Remember Barbara Saying So Long ]
[ When She Forced Me To Go Live With Don ]
[ I Remember That Year & A ½ Were Our Best Times, Ever ]
[ Once We Moved With Mary & Kenny ]
[ He Turned Into The Same Passive/Aggressive Prick That
I Sadly Remembered ]
[ I Have Good Memories Meeting Nicole In The Fred Meyer’s
Employee Break Room ]
[ In Under (2) Years Later I Became Her Groom ]
[ I Wish That I Had Memories Of When I Lived In Hawaii ]
[ I Guess My Mind Won’t Let Me Remember My Mom
Abusing Me Daily ]
[ Because Of My Horrible Mother ]
[ I Was Separated From My Brother ]
[ I Have No Memories Of My Dad Shooting Himself ]
[ In Front Of Me & My Sister ]
[ After Trying To Take The Life Of Someone Else ]
[ Memories Can Come Back In A Flood ]
[ Trying To Guess One Up ]
[ Would Be A Dud ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(605)▪︎[ Calmer Atmosphere … 7•22•2021 ]
[ I Love It That I Can Enter EVERY Room In The House
With Just A Turn Of The Doorknob ]
[ As Sure As Some People In My Life Still Calling Me
Bob ]
[ No More Keypad Combinations ]
[ Needed ]
[ No More Hesitations ]
[ Heeded ]
[ If Company Is Around, I Will Lock My Room ]
[ But There Will Be No Reason To Lock My Bathroom ]
[ Unless The Dark Force Beckons Our Hall ]
[ But, First He Must Call ]
[ It Is Very Clear ]
[ @ Least It Should Be To Him ]
[ That He MUST Have Permission To Even Come Here ]
[ I Never, Ever Want To Live Under The Same Roof ]
[ Every Month I Will Need Physical Proof ]
[ That He Will Pay Another Month’s Rent ]
[ He Should Never Say That It Had Been Spent ]
[ If He Needs (2) Or Even (3) Jobs To Get By ]
[ He Needs To Be One Hella Busy Guy ]
[ If He Has To Work All Day, Everyday ]
[ Then, That’s Okay ]
[ As Far As I Am Concerned ]
[ He Had (3) Or (4) Years Worth Of ABC’s ]
[ & He Never Learned ]
[ Not One Lesson In Life ]
[ So Who Suffered? ]
[ Me & My Wife ]
[ I Would Be The Target Of His Hate ]
[ Last August Or September I Had Enough ]
[ & Yelled ( CHECKMATE ) ]
[ He Poked The Bear, One Too Many Times ]
[ He Stole One Too Many Dimes ]
[ Him & I Always Clashed ]
[ The Father – Son Connection Was Bashed ]
[ Bashed Down To Paste ]
[ It Never Was Made To Taste ]
[ If It Was, It Was Fermented ]
[ About (6) Years Ago He Really Went Demented ]
[ In A Huge Way ]
[ Our Future Connection Was Like The Worst Car In An
Accident ]
[ The One That Was Completely Dented ]
[ I Want Our Empty Nest Home ]
[ Left Alone ]
[ All That I Care ]
[ About ]
[ Is That I Will Stay Here & He Will Stay Over There! ]
[ Especially If He Wants To Pout ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(601)▪︎[ What A Horrible Visit … 7•21•2021 ]
[ This Home Visit Was A Disaster From The Get-Go ]
[ The When, Was What We Did Not Know ]
[ So … ]
[ It Was Within The First (2) Hours ]
[ When Everything Went Sour ]
[ Then His Actions & Words Reminded His Mom About Why
He Was Moved ]
[ He Came Here To Knock Me Out Of My Groove ]
[ When He Turned Into A Problem ]
[ I Would Not Let Him! ]
[ To Continue On This Path ]
[ He Was Making As Much Sense ]
[ As Trigonometry Math ]
[ When He Demanded That We Take Him Home ]
[ My Reaction Was Soon To Be Shown ]
[ I Told Him ( OKAY, LET’s GO! ) ]
[ He Counted On Me Saying ( NO! ) ]
[ The Way That I Was In The Past ]
[ I Knew Could Not Last ]
[ He Used To Leave Footprints On My Back ]
[ A Straight, Solid Spine Is What I Lacked ]
[ So Into My Life Came This Strong Willed, Stubborn & No
Nonsense Caregiver For Me ]
[ She Really Taught Me How Things SHOULD Be ]
[ One Time Her Grandson Stole Her Credit Card ]
[ She Did Not Just Dismiss It Because He Was A Kid ]
[ No, She Let The Justice System Come Down On Him,
Really Hard ]
[ I Listened & Learned From This Woman Who Seemed So Wise ]
[ This Woman Does Not Bullshit Through Her Life ]
[ Or Let Anybody Get Over On Her By Telling A Handful Of Lies ]
[ She Taught Me Well ]
[ She Told Me To Use My Five Senses ]
[ Especially My Sense Of Smell ]
[ If A Situation Smells Like Bullshit, It Probably Is ]
[ & To Never Get Bent Out Of Shape ]
[ From An Occasional Diss ]
[ But B.D. Loved To Test My Patience To No End ]
[ Now When He Does Something That I Don’t Like ]
[ I Know Longer Pretend ]
[ That Something He Did Does Not Bother Me Now ]
[ When I React With A ( WOW! ) ]
[ ( WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS RIGHT HERE? ) ]
[ I No Longer React With A Submissive ( OH DEAR ) ]
[ Maybe He Does Not Like This Straight, Strong Spine ]
[ Of Mine ]
[ It Has Been Rough ]
[ Being On The Path, To Becoming This Tough ]
[ When I Kept Saying That It Was Time For Him To Say
( BYE-BYE ) ]
[ All He Did Was Sit There & Cry ]
[ When I Went Near Him & Asked ( WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? ) ]
[ He Would Stop & Shout ]
[ ( I WANT TO HAVE A DO-OVER! ) ]
[ When I Would Say ( THEY DO NOT EXIST IN REAL LIFE )
He Would Pout ]
[ Then I Said ( THIS IS THE REASON WHY YOU WERE MOVED
OUT! ) ]
[ I Kept Moving Him Towards The Door ]
[ I Kept Telling Him ( DON’t BRING YOUR DRAMA HERE
ANYMORE ) ]
[ He Thought He Could Come Here To Throw A Rock Into Our
Calm Pond ]
[ That, Right Then & There ]
[ Was When His Thinking Went Wrong ]
[ He Quickly Found ]
[ That His Thinking Errors Were Abound ]
[ & One Thing That He Did Not Figure On ]
[ Was That I Would Stand My Ground ]
[ We Were Finally Able To Drive Him Back To Where He Now
Lives ]
[ When He Comes Here ]
[ He Still Has No Respect To Give ]
[ But He Can Now Take His Circus Act On The Road ]
[ Because Of His Temper ]
[ This Visit Was Blown ]
[ Better Luck Next Time ]
[ So Be On The Look-Out For Another Rhyme ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(597)▪︎[ The Road For Children … 7•19•2021 ]
[ For Our Children, The Road To Happiness & Success is
Usually Paved By Our Example ]
[ Not By Ideas & Questions That Can Be Trampled ]
[ No Child Deserves Someone Rude ]
[ & That Excludes ]
[ Children Should Be Included In All Play That Is Child
Like ]
[ By Playing Games & Being Taught How To Ride A Bike ]
[ Children Should Be Nurtured & Taught ]
[ Not Be Given Away ]
[ Or Bought ]
[ They Should Have Wonder In Their Eyes ]
[ & @ Such A Young Age ]
[ They Should Never Be Expected To Be Worldly & Wise ]
[ Children Need To Play, Play & Play ]
[ & Never To Be Worried About If They Won’t Be Able To
Stay ]
[ Or Have The Threat Of Being Pushed Away ]
[ Everyday They Should Be Told To Their Face ]
[ That They Never Have To Worry About Having A Living
Place ]
[ Kids In Foster Care Have Dreams ]
[ That Creates Screams ]
[ They Are Never Secure About Where They Will Be Living
From One Day To The Next ]
[ A Message Concerning Another Move ]
[ Could Come Anyday Through A Message Or A Text ]
[ Children Should Feel Secure In Their Surroundings &
In Those That Are In Their Lives ]
[ The Adults Should Always Be Their Guiding Light ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(596)▪︎[ What Are Your Pro-Nouns? … 7•19•2021 ]
[ Now A Days When You Go To Town ]
[ You Really Have To Watch What You Say ]
[ When Someone Asks ( WHAT ARE YOUR PRO-NOUNS? ) ]
[ What Are My Pro-Nouns I Am Asked ]
[ By Someone Wearing A Mask ]
[ I Look @ Them & Say ( DO YOU HAVE THE NERVE … ) ]
[ ( TO ASK ME ABOUT MY USE OF VERBS? ) ]
[ I Say That I Am Way In The Dark ]
[ Trying To Figure Out Whether You Are A Marcia Or A
Mark ]
[ When Someone That Used To Be Someone’s Brother ]
[ Now Marks That They Are Now An ( OTHER ) ]
[ Confuses Me To No End ]
[ It Is None Of My Business About Who Shares Your Bed ]
[ But When Others Really Try To Make It My Business I
Say ( PLEASE, DON’t ) ]
[ Because If You Think That I Will Be Curious ]
[ I Have To Strongly Say ( UMM, I BET I WON’t ) ]
[ I Am Not That Curious About Who You Lay Down With
@ Night ]
[ Just Like It Is None Of Your Business Whom I Am With
When I Turn Off The Light )
[ I Do Not Object To Who Or How Often ]
[ The Only Thing That Will Concern Me Is If It Involves
Young Children ]
[ That Is When & Where The Line Should Be Drawn ]
[ No Child Deserves To Be Played With Like Some Chess
Pawn ]
[ They Legally Cannot Give Consent ]
[ They Never Should Be Given Away By One Of Their Parents ]
[ Or Be Used By One ]
[ When Or If I Hear That, Then I’m Done ]
[ Never Would Want To Hear Another Word ]
[ Then I Would Have To Let The Police Know What I Had
Just Heard ]
[ So Let’s Not Go There ]
[ That Is One Thing That I Do Not Want You To Share ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(599)▪︎[ What In Life … 7•20•2021 ]
[ You Have Spent Your Whole Life Trying To Figure Out
What You Want Out Of Life ]
[ Everyday, You Have Looked For That Light ]
[ To Be A Guide ]
[ Many People Cannot Accept, Or See ]
[ The Hypocrisy ]
[ Of Other People’s Lives, Or Even Their Own ]
[ Because, In The Dead Of The Night, When They Wake ]
[ They Then See, That They Are In Fact, All Alone ]
[ It Is Critical ]
[ To See ]
[ How Hypocritical ]
[ Others Can Be ]
[ Most People Can Never See Themselves In Others ]
[ When They Make Mistakes ]
[ They Think That They Can Hide Amongst Their Sisters &
Brothers ]
[ When They See That Others Might Have Some Success ]
[ They Forget About Their Own Mess ]
[ & Spend To Excess ]
[ On Credit Cards With High Interest Rates ]
[ Hoping Some Day ]
[ That Their Debts Magically Dissipates ]
[ Hoping To Be Fortuitous In Life ]
[ Hoping To Be Lucky In Love ]
[ When Or If They Find Their Husband Or Wife ]
[ Then Hoping That They Hit Every Green Light On The
Road ]
[ Going To & From Their Happy Abode ]
[ Then Finding That Such Luck Does Not Even Exist ]
[ No Matter How Much They Insist ]
[ That It Does, Or Doesn’t ]
[ Because If There Was ]
[ They Will Quickly Find, That There Wasn’t ]
[ People Have A Hard Time Looking Within ]
[ They Never Want To Look In The Mirror & See Their Own
Sin ]
[ When They Peer Deeply In Their Own Eyes ]
[ Do They See Their Lies? ]
[ That They Have Told To Themselves? ]
[ Or Told Someone Else? ]
[ I Bet They Won’t ]
[ I Bet They Don’t ]
[ So They Quickly Put The Handheld Mirror Down ]
[ Then They Look Around ]
[ Silence Is What They Hear ]
[ Because Nobody Is Near ]
[ So … No Harm, No Foul ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(595)▪︎[ I Hope They Think … 7•18•2021 ]
[ It Is Really Tough Not Sharing My High’s & Low’s ]
[ Of My Blog ]
[ With People That I Personally Know ]
[ A Few Stories Have Been Read, Liked & Commented On By Two
People That Are Physically In My Life ]
[ One Is A Good Friend ]
[ The Other Is My Wife ]
[ Besides A Few, Most Of My Likes ]
[ Comes From Others That Write ]
[ I Am Overjoyed By That Point ]
[ When Other Writers Take The Time ]
[ To Read A Rhyme ]
[ & I Hope That I Don’t Disappoint ]
[ I Cannot Appeal To Everyone, That Stops By ]
[ I Do Write Stories Where I Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Some Say That Asking ( WHY? ) Is A Conversation Stopper ]
[ I Don’t Want It To Be An Idea Dropper ]
[ In A Blink ]
[ I Want To Ask Others To Think ]
[ Not Drive The Reader To Drink ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(594)▪︎[ Anything Lately? … 7•18•2021 ]
[ How Do You Go Through Life & Not Add To The Chaos
Of It All? ]
[ Then When You Come To That Wall ]
[ You Turn Around & Lean On It ]
[ Maybe Even Pull Up A Chair & Sit ]
[ Relax, For A Minute Or Two ]
[ It Is Not What You Did That Matters ]
[ It Is What You Will Currently Do ]
[ It Is A ( WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY ) ]
[ Kind Of Society ]
[ Because What You Did ]
[ Is Behind You, Under Your Lid ]
[ If You Want Get Known ]
[ People Have Got To Be Shown ]
[ What Worth Is ]
[ On A Day-To-Day Basis ]
[ Whatever Has Been Done Last ]
[ Has Fast ]
[ Been Placed In The Past ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(593)▪︎[ Worth The Effort … 7•18•2021 ]
[ Some Say, That Life Chooses You ]
[ It Is Because Of Who You Are ]
[ Not Because Of What You Do ]
[ Is It Because Of Your Gene Pool? ]
[ Or Because You Make Others Feel Good ]
[ & Not Look Like A Fool ]
[ It Is Quite To The Contrary, Says He ]
[ It Is How Things Actually Are ]
[ & How Things Can Be ]
[ If Your Eyes Are Always Buried In A Book ]
[ How Does That Look? ]
[ Maybe That Is What Life Is All About ]
[ It Does Not Mean How Loud You Can Get ]
[ It Could Mean Coming To The Point Of Time When You Lose
All Doubt ]
[ & As You Grow Older ]
[ It Could Be By The Eye Of The Beholder ]
[ It Is ALL Common Sense ]
[ That Keep Others From Riding The Fence ]
[ It Costs Dollars & Cents ]
[ To Fix Those Scratches & Dents ]
[ Fender ]
[ Benders ]
[ Are Not Just That ]
[ Just Like Skinny People Are A Meal Away From Being Fat ]
[ A Roll Of Cookies Here Or There ]
[ Sometimes No Longer Having A Penchant To Even Share ]
[ Just Eating One After Another ]
[ Not Even Saving One For Their Mother ]
[ Sometimes What Is In Front Of Your Eyes ]
[ Have Been Misconceptions & Lies ]
[ Not One Single Person Telling You The Truth ]
[ Not Being Able To Go To The Dentist To Pull Your Bad Tooth ]
[ Sometimes You Can See ]
[ How Some People Can Be ]
[ Like A Deep Cavity ]
[ Eating Away @ The Eanamel Of The Base ]
[ Lying To People In Front Of Their Face ]
[ When The Base Is Gone ]
[ People Move On ]
[ When It Is Right ]
[ It Is Worth The Effort ]
[ That Is Put Into The Fight ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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