[ Sometimes When You Hit The Wall From Exhaustion
It Can Feel Like A Test ]
[ Or You Could Think That It Is There So You Can
Lean On It & Rest ]
[ That Is One Way You Could Turn That Situation
Into Something That’s Good ]
[ So After All Of This Time ]
[ That Wall Was Completely Misunderstood ]
[ The One Object That Comes Up & Blocks Your Way ]
[ Can Be Used To Give You The Only Break You Might
Get That Day ]
[ Walls Are Always Tall, Solid & Foreboding ]
[ Usually When You Come To One ]
[ You Are So Exhausted You Feel Like Folding ]
[ So You Look East Then West ]
[ You Try To Figure Out Which Direction Would Be
The Best ]
[ Way To Go ]
[ But How Do You Know? ]
[ Do You Stay Strong? ]
[ & Feel Your Way Along? ]
[ Maybe Lean Back & Take ]
[ A Break ]
[ Pull Up A Chair & Marvel @ The Enormous Wall ]
[ Put Your Feet Up ]
[ Maybe Make A Call ]
[ But Whatever You Do, Don’t Bang Your Head On It Over &
Over Again ]
[ Because It Might Be There To Lean On ]
[ Like The Strong Shoulder Of A Good Friend ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2021 Stories ]
(285)▪︎[ That Darn Bunny … 4•5•2021 ]
[ I Was Going To Trap The Easter Bunny Before Halloween
Because She Has A Direct Telephone Connection To Popeye ]
[ Ever Since I Was Young I Have Wanted To Share A Spinach Meal
With Him ]
[ Olive Oyl Would Not Join Us Because She Would Be In New Jersey Helping Her Mom Celebrate A Little Known Jewish
Holiday Called Rashard ]
[ Her Mom Used To Be In Florida But She Did Not Like The Storms ]
[ Aida & Myron Storms Were Neighbors That Lived 3 Miles Away In The Neighboring State Of Montana ]
[ the Storms Were Obnoxious Atheists ]
[ They Would Howl @ The Moon When It Was 2:17pm ]
[ There Was A Time When She Wanted To Move To Alaska, But She Had An Allergy To Carrots ]
[ Mini Mouse Used To Pickle The Best Carrots But Someone Stole The Only Jars That She Had Shoplifted From The Jack in the Box On Watchamucallit Street]
[ That Used To Be A Bankrupt Business Down On Mission Street ]
[ They Had To Change The Name, Because No Business Likes To
Call Themselves ( BANKRUPT ) ]
[ Whenever I Don’t Drive On Mission Street I Always Need To Eat @ The Pancake House That Is On The Corner Of S.E. ( WHAT ) & N.W. ( HOW ) ]
[ Sometimes The Street Signs Can Get Confusing Because If
You Come To ( WHY ) Street, You Have Gone Too Far ]
[ It Is A Really Questionable Corner But Once You Understood
The Why, You Can Skateboard Through The Freeway With All Of The Other Swimmers ]
[ Then You Take One More Left & If You Reach The Lake You Found
Out That You Couldn’t Find Your House ]
[ Because Your Home Is On Red Rock S.E. So You Took One Too Many Über Rides ]
[ So I Figured Out … ]
[ Oh, Another Thing That I Like 2 Due Is Righting Confusing Dinners 4 Sum Friends ]
[ Butt … ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(419)▪︎[ Oh, One Of Those … 5•18•2021 ]
[ As The Desperation Sets In ]
[ I Sit Back & Say To Myself ( NOT THIS AGAIN? ) ]
[ The Battles Wage On & On & On ]
[ My Brain Feels Like A Small Ping Pong ]
[ Bouncing From One Side, To The Other ]
[ I Wish That I Had Someone On Speed Dial To Bounce Ideas
Off Of ]
[ Like My Brother ]
[ But Was He The Best Listener In This Kind Of Situation ]
[ Because I Felt That He Had A Form Of Infatuation ]
[ So I Am Back @ The Starting Gate ]
[ Looking @ The Date ]
[ While I Stand There Pondering ]
[ My Mind Is Wandering ]
[ What Is @ The End Of The Rainbows? ]
[ I Actually Have Never Met Someone Who Knows ]
[ Back To My Thoughts ]
[ The Ones That Have Me Tied Up In Knotts ]
[ What Is The ( THIS )? ]
[ Something That I Constantly Miss? ]
[ The ( THIS ) Is The Constant Subjects That We Go Back To ]
[ The Ones That I Am Never Able To Work Through ]
[ It Is The Dance That Me & You ]
[ Constantly Do ]
[ It Is Our Wednesday ]
[ The One That Some People Call ( HUMP DAY ) ]
[ The ( THIS ) Are The Subjects That We Can’t Get Over,
Through, Around Or Pass ]
[ The Subjects That Always Turns One Of Us Into The
Proverbial ( ASS ) ]
[ Oh, Those! ]
[ Yes The ( THIS ) Are ( THOSE ) ]
[ Oh ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(418)▪︎[ What Would That Word Be? … 5•17•2021 ]
[ The Footage Sparked Outrage Across The Nation ]
[ America Has Now Been Reduced To Fractions ]
[ This Fraction Of People See’s The George Floyd Murder
Tape This Way ]
[ Another Fraction Of People See The Tape ]
[ & They Decided That They Sure Had Alot To Say ]
[ A Paramedic In-Training Tried To Give Floyd Some Medical
Attention ]
[ To Check His Pulse & Breathing ]
[ Not To Administer Medication ]
[ Christopher Martin Stated That He Wished That He Had Never
Made The Call ]
[ That Started This All ]
[ He Has Been Racked With Guilt Ever Since Then ]
[ He Feels That If He Would Not Had Made The Call, None Of This
Would Have Happened ]
[ In The Video He Had His Hands On His Head Looking & Acting
Stressed ]
[ Thinking That He Caused All Of This Mess ]
[ That Stress Should Not Have Been Laid Upon His Young
Shoulders ]
[ How Will This Affect His Life, As He Grows Older? ]
[ How Many Of Those Bystanders Called 911? ]
[ Because Of Chauvin’s Actions ]
[ The Only Thing That Chauvin Did Not Do, Was Use His Gun ]
[ The Fault For This Lies Squarely On Chauvin’s Head ]
[ It Was Completely His Actions That Caused George Floyd
To Be Dead ]
[ Those Bystanders Witnessed A Murder Right In Front Of
Their Eyes ]
[ Because Of The Police Body Cams & The Bystanders Recording
EVERYTHING On Their Phones ]
[ The Public Did Not Have To Be Forced Into Believing All Of The
Police Officers Lies ]
[ Oh, I Am Sure That The Officers Would Say That Floyd Died
From Acute Problems ]
[ Because Of The Drugs In His System ]
[ Chauvin’s Body Language During That Whole Video Showed
That He Was Very Relaxed ]
[ While Floyd’s Breathing System Was Taxed ]
[ Chauvin Did Not Show Any Sign That His Life Was In Any
Danger ]
[ Chauvin’s Demeanor Seemed Calm ]
[ There Was No Sign Of Anger ]
[ Floyd Had @ Least Two Other Cops Holding Him Down ]
[ Floyd Was A Very Large Man ]
[ Nobody Was As Big As Him Around ]
[ That Did Not Mean That He Deserved To Be Tortured ]
[ While He Was Being Murdered ]
[ Chauvin Did His Part ]
[ Because He Had Evil Intentions In His Heart ]
[ Chauvin Did Not Seem Affected By George’ Condition
When He Got Up ]
[ Maybe Because Floyd Showed No Wounds Or Cuts ]
[ Outwardly Floyd Looked Fine ]
[ He Wasn’t ]
[ Because Chauvin’s Actions Caused Floyd To Die ]
[ Everytime That I See That Video I Try To Come Up With
The Right Verb ]
[ But I Keep Coming Back To The Same One … Disturbed ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(281)▪︎[ Another Day … 4•4•2021 ]
[ You Tore My Heart Out Of My Chest ]
[ & Just Threw It On The Ground ]
[ You Selfishly Thought That Would Be The Best ]
[ For Everybody Around ]
[ You Stand There Acting All Proud ]
[ While Talking Really Loud ]
[ To The Crowd ]
[ That Has Gathered Around You ]
[ Do You Really Think That You Are Getting Your
Point Through? ]
[ By Telling Them What You Do? ]
[ To Others That You Think Are Not As Strong? ]
[ & You Never Think That Is Wrong? ]
[ Is Your Sense Of Humanity Gone? ]
[ Has Your Good Conscience Moved On? ]
[ This Has Stopped Being Fun ]
[ So Now I’ve Got To Run ]
[ Because It Looks Like This Relationship Is Done ]
[ No Need To Explain ]
[ I Don’t Want To Hear You Complain ]
[ Not Anymore ]
[ Why, For? ]
[ It Makes Me Want To Head For The Door ]
[ I Knew This Was What You Dread ]
[ But When You Decided To Crawl In Another Man’s Bed ]
[ I Really Questioned What Was Going On In Your Head ]
[ You Should Had Thought Of Me ]
[ But You Thought Of Him Instead ]
[ That Is Why In My Heart ]
[ You Are Dead ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(282)▪︎[ Counting The Hair On My Arm … 4•4•2021 ]
[ What Happens When You Get Up Really Early Because You
Are Way Too Late? ]
[ & Forgot The Key For The Combination Lock On The
Front Gate? ]
[ Would You Have To Go Around ]
[ As You Go Under? ]
[ & Then You Feel ]
[ The Lightning & The Thunder ]
[ The Thunder Is So Bright ]
[ & The Lightning Is So Loud ]
[ Does That Make You Have To Stand To The Right? ]
[ Of The Gathering Crowd? ]
[ Does The Crowd Cause The Thunder To Flash? ]
[ Does The Sound Of The Lightning ]
[ Cause Some Cars To Crash? ]
[ That Is One Part Of Father Time That No One Wants
@ All ]
[ Just Like Summer Weather Happening In The Fall ]
[ When Fall Rolls In ]
[ Does That Make You Think Of Spring Again? ]
[ Father Time Can Make It A Windy Day ]
[ Only If The Laws Of Nature ]
[ Has Her Way ]
[ What Goes Up Doesn’t Always Go Sideways ]
[ But Sometimes It Does Come Down ]
[ If Simon Says ]
[ Simon Does Not Always Cooperate From What I’ve Seen ]
[ Because Sometimes My Ribeye Steak ]
[ Does Not Always Come Out Feeling Lean ]
[ Just Like Ice Cream Colors Are Not Always Bold ]
[ & Hot Apple Pie ]
[ Is Not Very Cold ]
[ But If I Was Standing On Top Of A Bridge Over Looking
The Water ]
[ Would I Need To Rely On ]
[ The Ears Of A Spotter? ]
[ If I Jumped, Would I Have To Swim Before I Fly? ]
[ Aquaman Can’t ]
[ Because He Does Not Have Good Eyes ]
[ When He Walks In Water Does He Keep His Eyes Closed? ]
[ Or Does He Go Invisible? ]
[ So He Might Have To Really Plug His Nose ]
[ Before I End This Story, I Have One More Thing To Say ]
[ Okay ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(401)▪︎[ Whatever Happened To Little Red? … 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 ]
(399)[ Memories … 5•10•2021 ]
[ Are Your Memories Full Of Mistakes That Were Made? ]
[ Or Lessons Learned? ]
[ Would You Always Trade ]
[ Back In ]
[ The Mistakes That Caused You Concern? ]
[ Are The Lessons Learned Always Because Of The Mistakes
You Make? ]
[ Can You Magically Make A Pie? ]
[ After You Tried To Make A Cake? ]
[ The Knowledge That Mistakes Bring ]
[ Are Not Tied Together By Strings ]
[ You Try Your Hardest To Not Make The Same Mistakes
Twice ]
[ Not Burning Your Hand On A Hot Stove Again ]
[ Would Be Really Nice ]
[ Sometimes Your Mistakes Makes Their Way Into Your Dreams ]
[ You Would Have No Control Of That It Seems ]
[ Everyday You Wind Around Lifes Potholes ]
[ Many Times In Your Life ]
[ You Have Questioned Your Roles ]
[ Of What You Are Supposed To Be ]
[ In Today’s Fractious Society ]
[ Do You Wear Many Hats, Or Just Concentrate On Just A Few? ]
[ You Don’t Have The Heart Or Energy ]
[ To Take On Anything New ]
[ Never Seek To Shift The Spotlight On You ]
[ So Others Can Taunt ( OH BOO HOO ) ]
[ You Don’t Believe In Pity Parties So You Could Sit In The
Corner & Pout ]
[ You Thoroughly Believe In Working Things Out ]
[ Then You Can Fall Asleep With No More Nagging Doubts ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(729)▪︎[ Belief For Relief … 8•28•2020 ]
[ Will There Ever Be A Belief ]
[ That There Will Be Some Relief ]
[ If Even So Brief ]
[ When You Are Trying To Walk The Minefield ]
[ Of Grief? ]
[ One Wrong Step & A Bomb Can Go Boom ]
[ One Whole Day Of Being In A Bad Mood ]
[ Can Quickly Clear A Room ]
[ 2 Exits, No Waiting ]
[ Anybody’s Voice ]
[ Can Be So Grating ]
[ So It Is Always A Choice ]
[ To Start Going Through Some Hesitating ]
[ Moments About Which Way You Will Go ]
[ Are You Ever Confidant ]
[ That You Really Know? ]
[ Life Can Be Tumultuous On A Regular Day ]
[ But You Find That When Grief Pops Its Ugly Head Up ]
[ It Could Be With You For A Very Long Stay ]
[ Sometimes It Doesn’t Go Away For Months Or Years ]
[ Grief Can Actually Shine A Bright Light ]
[ On Your Worst Fears ]
[ & There Could Be Many Nights ]
[ When You Have Nothing But Tears ]
[ But Some Say That Real Men Don’t Cry ]
[ The Question For That, Is Why? ]
[ Not? ]
[ Why Would A Guy ]
[ Always Want To Be A Robot? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(728)▪︎[ Kirsten … 8•27•2020 ]
[ Nothing Gets Stronger Until You Overload It ]
[ Everything Counts ]
[ Even Just A Little Bit ]
[ But Muscle Memory ]
[ Can Mean Everything ]
[ Whatever You Want To See ]
[ Depends On What You Bring ]
[ Do You Bring A Good Attitude ]
[ Do You Always Check Your Mood ]
[ @ The Door? ]
[ What If You Do Your Whole Set ]
[ & Kirsten Yells ( NOW, GIVE ME TWO MORE! ) ]
[ Is That Demand Met ]
[ With Tears On The Floor? ]
[ Or Do You Gather Your Energy & Check Yourself? ]
[ Knowing That You Wouldn’t Do This ]
[ For Just Anyone Else ]
[ Because You Know That Kirsten Knows What’s Best ]
[ So You Always Want To Beat Every Test ]
[ She Will Always Let You Rest ]
[ A Minute Or Two ]
[ & Then Kirsten Will Once Again ]
[ Let You Know What You Need To Do ]
[ She Is So Good @ Breaking Things Down So You Can ]
[ Understand ]
[ She Is Always Your Biggest Fan ]
[ Kirsten Does Not Criticize ]
[ She Does Not Cut You Down To A Smaller Size ]
[ A Good Therapist Is One That Is Constantly Explaining ]
[ As She Goes ]
[ So You Are Never Complaining ]
[ About The Exercises She Shows ]
[ But When Things Get Easy To Do ]
[ She Will Give You Something New ]
[ & Then You May Discover ]
[ You Have A Muscle Group You Never Knew ]
[ You Never Want To Run & Hide ]
[ Let Her Be Your Guide ]
[ & In The End You’ll Find Out ]
[ That She Never Lied ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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