[ Whenever The Dark Clouds Roll In ]
[ I Always Wonder When The Rain Will Begin ]
[ Again ]
[ Does The Rain Have An Alternate Meaning Behind It? ]
[ Something Bad Or Something Legit? ]
[ My Memory Oftentimes Plays Games On My Mind ]
[ Sometimes I Think I Am Ahead Of The Game ]
[ But In Reality I Am Way Behind ]
[ Once I Feel I Have The Answers To The Most Important
Questions In My Life ]
[ Then Reality Hits Me ]
[ & Pushes Me Off Of My Trike ]
[ It Seems That I Am Still Trying To Navigate Forward In The
Human Race ]
[ When I Look Around @ Society ]
[ I Am Trying To Figure Out My Place ]
[ Am I Towards The Front Of The Line Or In The Middle ]
[ It Seems That There Are As Many Questions ]
[ As There Are Riddles ]
[ I Have Seen That It Is Very Clear ]
[ That There Are No ( KNOCK KNOCK ) Jokes Around
Here ]
[ It Is Even Harder To Find Here Or There ]
[ Someone That Wants To Share ]
[ Or Even Someone That Shows They Care ]
[ Alot Of Time Is Spent In Silence To Personally Reflect ]
[ So When You Are In A Conversation You Won’t Constantly
Deflect ]
[ & Lose That Person’s Respect ]
[ It Is An ( I ) World Out There Now It Seems ]
[ To 85% Of Society ]
[ There Is No Longer The Ability To Obtain ( THE AMERICAN
DREAM ) ]
[ & That Seems Sad ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2021 Stories ]
(129)▪︎[ Sleepless In Salem … 2•8•2021 ]
[ I Have No Idea What Restful Sleep Feels Like ]
[ @ Times When I Get Up In The Morning ]
[ I Feel Like I Spent The Last 6 Hours Peddaling Hard On A Bike ]
[ My Whole Body Is Sore ]
[ I Am Foggy ]
[ Down To My Core ]
[ Every Night Is The Same Routine ]
[ I Can Close My Eyes @ Times ]
[ But Sleep Is No Where To Be Seen ]
[ I Don’t Know What The Secret Is To Get A Night Of Deep ]
[ Sleep ]
[ I Have Woke Up In The Morning Feeling Rested Once In The
Last 25 Years ]
[ Many Times During This Period Of Time ]
[ I Have Had Nightmares Because Of My Fears ]
[ Of Facing Death All Alone ]
[ The Silence Has A Very Distinctive Tone ]
[ No One Texts ]
[ Or Calls On The Phone ]
[ I Have No Idea Why Deep Sleep Is Such The Escape Artist With
Me? ]
[ How Can This Be? ]
[ Why Do These Sleepless Nights Affect Me So Much? ]
[ It Is Just Something That I Can’t See ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(128)▪︎[ When? … 2•7•2021 ]
[ How Do We, As A Whole Society, Ever Go Back To Being
Civil To Each Other, Again? ]
[ If We Haven’t Already Started ]
[ When Can We Begin? ]
[ We Just Don’t Say Anything To Strangers Anymore ]
[ When We Get Packages Delivered To Our House ]
[ The Drivers Don’t Even Knock On The Door ]
[ If My Dog Didn’t Start To Bark ]
[ I Would Had Never Known ]
[ That A Delivery Truck Drove Up & Parked ]
[ There Is No Longer Conversing With Others Face To Face ]
[ We Are Now A Masked Human Race ]
[ When A Stranger Comes Near You There Is No Such
Thing As A Nod Or A Smile ]
[ We No Longer Stop & Talk For Awhile ]
[ No Emotion Seen Through The Eyes That Peer Out Over
The Top ]
[ If You Go Within Anothers 6 Feet Of Space ]
[ You Are Immediately Told To ( STOP! ) ]
[ Nobody Smiles, Grins Or Frowns ]
[ No More Traveling To Other Towns ]
[ No More Leisurely Drives ]
[ All Over The News Every Day ]
[ Are Broadcasts About The Total Loss Of Lives ]
[ Anyone, Any Stranger, Can Be A Killer By Being A Carrier Of
The ‘VID ]
[ Maybe They Never Realized That They Got Infected By Their Kid ]
[ A Killer That No Longer Shoots Or Stabs ]
[ They Are Killing Others By Passing On A Deadly Virus That Is
Being Studied In Labs ]
[ The Scientists Are Trying To Find A Vaccine For A Virus Before
It Kills Us ]
[ Then Coming Up With A Vaccine That We Can Trust ]
[ People Coming By Car Or Bus ]
[ Being Told That Being Vaccinated Is Becoming A Must ]
[ But Right Now They Are Vaccinating Inmates ]
[ Before The Rest Of The Majority Of The Rest Of The
Population ]
[ So Most Of Us Have To Wait ]
[ For Our Vaccination ]
[ What Kind Of Hurts ]
[ Is That Some People Are Getting Their Second Shots ]
[ Before Some Of Us Have Received Our First ]
[ That Is Not Fair ]
[ But Most Of Those Don’t Care ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(425)▪︎[ Off The Fence … 5•20•2021 ]
[ As Anxiety & Depression Sweeps Across My Cloudy
Mind ]
[ I Sit Back & Attempt To Find ]
[ Something In My Life That Actually Makes Sense ]
[ Something, Where I Can Say I Am On This Specific Side
Of The Fence ]
[ Not Straddling Or Standing On Top ]
[ I Want To Pick A Side & Just Stop ]
[ The Hopping ]
[ The Dropping ]
[ The Shopping ]
[ For A Better Deal ]
[ Because I Am Not Trying To Reinvent The Wheel ]
[ I Am Just Trying To Make A Stand ]
[ No Matter The Demand ]
[ & Try To Get My Mind Into Better Shape ]
[ Instead Of Keeping In Mind Where All Of The Exits Are
For A Quick Escape ]
[ I Am Trying To Face These Issues Head-On ]
[ Instead Of Throwing Up My Arms In Defeat & Yelling
( OH, C’mon ) ]
[ Don’t Exasperate ]
[ When Looking Down @ My Fate ]
[ Trying To Lace Up My Big Boy Boots ]
[ Looking Somewhere To Put Down Some Roots ]
[ Not Trying To Wait ]
[ Since I Have Been In This House Since 2008 ]
[ What Better Place To Do That Than Here? ]
[ What Do I Have To Fear? ]
[ That Part … Has Never Been Clear ]
[ Like A Very Wise President ( F.D.R. ) Once Said ( … THE ONLY
THING THAT WE HAVE TO FEAR, IS FEAR ITSELF ) ]
[ Not Fear Of Ourselves ]
[ Or Fear Of Someone Else ]
[ I Think That The Fear Of Failure Is A Very Real Thing ]
[ I Think, That If There Was A Ranking ]
[ That Would Be The King ]
[ Is That Easy To Look Past? ]
[ You Can Never Do That Very Fast ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(409)▪︎[ All Of A Sudden … 5•14•2021 ]
[ If You Got A Sudden Case Of Amnesia But Then Was
Cured, How Would You Remember What You Forgot? ]
[ If You Were Standing On A Square Piece Of Wood ]
[ Could You Still Be Put On The Spot ]
[ Can Spots & Squares Intertwine? ]
[ If I Was Told To Count To Ten ]
[ Could I Take A Break @ Nine? ]
[ Do People See Blue Or Feel That Way? ]
[ If Someone Has Blues Eyes ]
[ Will The Eyes Look Sad All Day? ]
[ Could The 24 Hour Flu Go Overtime? ]
[ How Many Quarters Do You Need ]
[ To Save Up To Spend A Dime? ]
[ Time Flies, But It Can Also Drag ]
[ How Come When Something Seems Easy ]
[ People Say That They Have It In The Bag? ]
[ A Baseball Base ]
[ A Military Base ]
[ What Do They Have In Common With Each Other ]
[ When You Have A Good One ]
[ Do You Want Another? ]
[ I Would Know ]
[ Because I Would Say ( NO ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(414)▪︎[ Happy 50th Birthday … 5•15•2021 ]
[ I Married You Before You Were 25 ]
[ So I Have Loved You For More Than ½ Of The
Years That You Have Been Alive ]
[ So Here We All Sit In Our House ]
[ With More Characters Around You ]
[ Than The Shows Staring Donald Duck & Mickey Mouse ]
[ You’ve Got Me, The Husband & Brenden The Son ]
[ Dani, Asha, Zoey & Marianno Are Also Here To Have Some Fun ]
[ I Know That You Never Wanted A Big To Do ]
[ But This Get Together Has Been Arranged To Celebrate You ]
[ To Celebrate You Turning Fifty Years Young ]
[ So This Is The Main Reason That I Wanted You To Come ]
[ Everywhere You Look You See A Friendly Face ]
[ All Brought Here, To Our Safe Place ]
[ Even Before You Can Blink ]
[ Your Inner Circle Is Bigger Than You Think ]
[ You Have Been The Center Of My World Since We First
Met ]
[ When I First Said ( I LOVE YOU ) ]
[ My Future Was Set ]
[ Here’s To Having Our Good Friends Around ]
[ Here’s To The Best Friends That Can Ever Be Found ]
[ I Hope That This Night Will Be Remembered For A Long
Long Time ]
[ I Hope It Lasts Longer Than Zoey Can Keep Ahold of
A Glass Of Wine ]
[ So Who Should Do The Math ]
[ How Many Glasses Can One Break While They Are Sitting
On The Toilet ]
[ Before Taking A Bath? ]
[ Dani Should Always Feel Right @ Home Here ]
[ But Big M Looks Like He Needs A 6 Pack Of His Favorite
Imported Beer ]
[ Zoey & Marianno Are Taking The Gloves Off Again ]
[ When Did It Start? ]
[ Where Will It End? ]
[ Zoey Is About To Split Her Pants ]
[ This Was All Put Together In Two Days ]
[ By Taking The Biggest Chance ]
[ Chances That All Of The Personalities Would Mesh Would
Be The Wish ]
[ So Who Gets Drunk BEFORE They Fish? ]
[ Now Big M Is Trying To Get Brenden To Drink ]
[ Would That Be A Good Idea? ]
[ Hmmm, Let Me Think? ]
[ How Many Fingers Were Really Up There ]
[ Z? ]
[ That Was Not Really Fair ]
[ For Me, To See ]
[ Oh, Marianno Is Going To Say ( OUCH ) ]
[ As He Has An Uncomfortable Sleep, On Our Couch ]
[ We Need To Do This Again For A Pizza Night ]
[ Where We All Get Loaded On Carbs Until There Is No More
Pizza In Sight ]
[ Give Asha A Cupcake Just For Kicks ]
[ Give Dani A Cupcake & Watch Her Lick ]
[ I Think The Night Was Pulled Off Without A Hitch ]
[ Now We Have To Listen To Brenden Moan & Bitch ]
[ He Is Not Going To Ruin This Occasion With His Bad
Attitude ]
[ Or I Will Get Involved & Ruin His Mood ]
[ I Will Continue To Surround Myself With Those That I Love ]
[ When I Look Out @ All Six Of You ]
[ I Thank The Man Above ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(406)▪︎[ How Do People Feel? … 5•12•2021 ]
[ Do People Really Feel Blue ]
[ When People Do Not Come Through? ]
[ How Really Dependable Are Those That Are Close? ]
[ More Dependable Than Most? ]
[ How Good Would You Had Been If You Chose ]
[ To Play Host? ]
[ Most People Do Not Choose ]
[ When They Have Nothing To Win ]
[ But Everything To Lose ]
[ Do People Not Come Through For Specific Reasons? ]
[ Does It All Depend On If Hell Completely Freezes? ]
[ Some People Are Not Reliable For The Hell Of It ]
[ They Just Do Not Really Give A Shit ]
[ I Wish Those Kinds Of People Would Have To Wear
A Tag ]
[ That Says Exactly That ]
[ It Would Cause So Much Less Strife ]
[ In Life ]
[ They Could All Be Rounded Up & Packed Into A Room ]
[ Then Let Them Fume ]
[ Are Those That Are Close, There For A Specific Reason? ]
[ Are Some Only There During The College Football Season? ]
[ My Favorite College Football Watching Buddy Turns
Out To Be My Wife ]
[ Some Of Her Reactions Should Be Shown During The
Half-Time Highlights ]
[ She Has Her College Football Team To Root For & I
Have Mine ]
[ & That Suits Us Just Fine ]
[ Dependable People Are So Difficult To Find ]
[ They Do Not Even Need To Be Of The Like Mind ]
[ Definitely Not The Opposite Thinking ]
[ About Drinking ]
[ I Want People Stay Alive ]
[ When They Drive ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(401)▪︎[ Whatever & Whenever … 5•10•2021 ]
[ Why Do My Ears Hurt When I Walk My Car Home? ]
[ It Is Like My Hands Go Dizzy From The Loud Honks Waving From
The Guy Floating On The Picnic Merry-Go-Round ]
[ Why Do They Feel So Quiet? ]
[ Why Does It Hurt My Bellybutton Everytime I Sneeze? ]
[ Pepper Does That To Me When I Am Cold, Sitting On My
Shower Couch ]
[ I Have Seen It Both Ways × 4 ]
[ Why Doesn’t Blue, Yellow Or Pink Start With An ( S )? ]
[ ( OKAY ) Is Not A Dressed Up Answer ]
[ Maybe Because They Are No Longer Sold In Pairs ]
[ Now If They Were Sold In The Condiments Section @ Disneyland,
They Would Not ]
[ What Is Yours? ]
[ Orange Is The New Vegetable ]
[ Mine, Was Too + 5 =3 ]
[ I Agreed To That Objection When I Yawned, About It 2 Weeks
Ago ]
[ Speaking Of Blue, Why Are Tennis Shoes Like They Are? ]
[ But I Don’t Agree With The Soup That You Spoke ]
[ @ Times It Itches Like You Just Shoot From Your Pocket ] [ Really? ]
[ With All Of That, I Have Not Gone Under? ]
[ That Does Not Make Two Cents ]
[ I Think You Should ]
[ Again & Again, Like I Said ( HEY! ) Next Week ]
[ Betsy Ross Wanted To Sew Circles In The Flag, But She Got
Tackled Before She Could Eat ]
[ That Did Not Sound Fair Before The Sun Came Up ]
[ Does Purple Really Smell Like Chicken? ]
[ If You Took The Number 27, Please Put It Back ]
[ When Does 4 + 7 = 9? ]
[ Right Then ]
[ I Thought Only Green Did That In March ]
[ Speaking Of March … ]
[ Well? ]
[ If My Watch Had Clouds In The Water, How Much Time Did You
Save? ]
[ Try It Yesterday, It Really Does Make You Giggle ]
[ Because There Are Bubbles @ The Beginning ]
[ If It Happened Next Year, It Would Never, Ever Taste Like That ]
[ But Don’t Take The Apple Cake Out Of My Blender, Yet ]
[ I Will Never Get It ]
[ Because It Only Triangulates Twice In That Lady’s Life ]
[ It Won’t Be Before The Moon Sets ]
[ Did You Know That Grass Has Not Only Been The Color
Green? ]
[ It Has Been … ]
[ Only On Days That Rhyme With Orange ]
[ My Teddy Bear Just Yelled @ You ]
[ Umbrellas Do Not Help You Tan ]
[ But Banana’s Do Float In Jello ]
[ Only The Rainbow Kind ]
[ When Jack & Jill Went For Water, Why Didn’t They Just Turn The
Oven On? ]
[ Did You Know That The Three Bears Only Drank Coffee? ]
[ Black With Sugar, Cream & Whipped Cream ]
[ When Humpty Fell Was He Then Sunny Side Up? ]
[ Why Didn’t Little Red Riding Hood Or Little Bo Peep Ever Wear
Underwear? ]
[ Both Of Them Wore Men’s Boxers ]
[ How Come Chocolate Is Red When You Sneeze On It? ]
[ When The Pied Piper Had All Of Those Mice Following Him There
Was No Sign Of His Pet Chicken Anywhere Around ]
[ Why Was That? ]
[ The Mice Eventually Deciduated From The Piper Because He
Would Not Ever Play Jazz ]
[ Did Jack Run Away From Jill Because He Was Jealous? ]
[ Jill Had A Thing For The JOLLY GREEN GIANT ]
[ Anatomically Speaking, He Knew That He Would Not Ever
Measure Up ]
[ I Have Never Seen Anybody Sing In The Rain ]
[ I Am Not Wearing Any Panty Hose Right Now ]
[ I Felt That You Should Know ]
[ Did You Know That Little Jack Horner Was Lactose Intolerant? ] [ I Trust You On That One ]
[ Why Couldn’t The Jolly Green Giant Cross-Fit? ]
[ Was It Because He Lost His Phone? ]
[ The Big Bad Wolf Had Horrendous Smelling Hands & He Has
A CBD GUMMIES Business ]
[ The Three Little Pigs Built Their Three Houses Using Non-Union
Workers ]
[ I Saw Outside Of A Magazine That The Other Year That Some
Elephants Are Allergic To Peanut Butter & Banana Jelly Ritz
Crackers ]
[ It Is Because Of The Smell Of The Vanilla Bean ]
[ @ Times They Feel Fuzzy ]
[ Fuzzy Is A Funny Word ]
[ Fuzzy Is Not Just A Word, It Is A Funny Feeling ]
[ Right? ]
[ Well I Guess This Should Be The Beginning & I You Can Have
Two Of Them ]
[ This Was Sent With Much Love To Try To Make You Smile In
Such A Turbulent & Deciduous Time ]
[ Okay … Good Talk ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(393)▪︎[ A Lonely Boy … 5•8•2021 ]
[ This Is For That One, Sad Boy ]
[ Living Lonely, Without Any Toys ]
[ When You Look In Your Closet, For Some Fun ]
[ You Don’t Find, A Single One ]
[ They Were Taken From You, About Two Years Ago ]
[ For Reasons That You Still, Don’t Know ]
[ One Day They Were Here & The Next Day They Were Gone ]
[ You Don’t Remember What You Did, That Was So Wrong ]
[ To Have Them Taken, When You Were Not There ]
[ & If You Were Asked, You Would Have Gladly Shared ]
[ That Day, Plays Through Your Mind ]
[ Time, After Time ]
[ You Went Down The Street, To The Park ]
[ To Play With Your Friends ]
[ & You Made It Home, Before Dark ]
[ Do You Go To Your Mom Or Dad & Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Is It Even, Worth Another Try? ]
[ You Still Have Welts ]
[ From The Last Time, That Your Dad Got Mad & Used His Belt ]
[ You Never Thought ]
[ That He Was Ever Going To Stop ]
[ All Because You Drank A Pop ]
[ Without Your Dad’s Permission ]
[ After Your Admission ]
[ Were The Toys Being Taken Because Of That? ]
[ Being Taken Because Of That One Bad Act? ]
[ Or Was It Because Of The Bank, That You & Your Four
Friends Robbed Two Years Ago, Last May ]
[ You & Your Little Group Of Friends, Just Wanted To Get Paid ]
[ You All Got The Cash ]
[ By Going In & Out, Really Fast ]
[ But Then Your Dad, Caught A View ]
[ Of That Evenings News ]
[ After Stashing Some In The Floor & In A Crawl Space, In The
Hall ]
[ Your Dad Said That He Wanted It All ]
[ Or He Would Make A Call ]
[ So You Had To Give It To Him ]
[ But You Kept What You Bundled Up & Hid In The Wall ]
[ He Had No Clue ]
[ & Neither Did You ]
[ Know That The Story Would Twist ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(395)▪︎[ Whatever It Takes … 5•9•2021 ]
[ Every Morning When I Wake ]
[ I Have To Take ]
[ 3 Tylenol For My Pounding Headache ]
[ Because I Am Still Missing You ]
[ & All The Things That We Used To Do ]
[ One Of My Biggest Mistakes ]
[ Was Letting You Walk ]
[ Because All I Do Now, Is Ache ]
[ If I’m Too Late ]
[ With What I’ve Said ]
[ Please Tell Me What I’m Supposed To Say? ]
[ How Come ]
[ I Feel So Numb? ]
[ Is This Real? ]
[ Is This How I Will Always Feel? ]
[ @ Times I Have Thought So Loud All The Speakers In My
Head Have Blown ]
[ Worried All The Time, Of The Unknown ]
[ All Of The Alcohol ]
[ & Adderall ]
[ Should Have Burned Up By Now ]
[ If Time Is Not The Answer ]
[ I Don’t Know How ]
[ Because Of All Of The Therapy Sessions ]
[ My Mind Is Filled With Too Many Questions ]
[ I Don’t Think It Is Up To You ]
[ I Will Cry, If I Want To ]
[ Conscience ]
[ This ]
[ I Am Jealous Of Others Friends ]
[ Because They Come Out & Jump In ]
[ I Can Never Measure Up To What I Was ]
[ I Can’t Compare Myself To What Another Man Does ]
[ Was All Of This Said ( JUST BECAUSE )? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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