(491)▪︎[ Unresolved Grief … 12-31-2025 ]

[ Have You Ever Felt Like You Have Some Unresolved Grief ]
[ That Needs Some Closure? ]
[ But, When You Go Looking For Some Relief ]
[ Are You Afraid Of More Exposure? ]

[ Of What Has Been Bugging You About Your Past? ]
[ You Begin To Worry That Your Troubled Mind Might Last ]
[ & The Dye Might Have Been Cast ]

[ Your Troubled Event Happened Over (23yrs) Prior ]
[ Through (4) Completely Hostile Interrogations ]
[ They Always Called You A Liar ]
[ Which Led To So Many Frustrations ]
[ Lighting Your Whole Life On Fire ]

[ You Fell Into A Rabbit Hole Where You Did Not See A Way Out ]
[ All Of The Powers That Be ]
[ Wanted You To Go Home & Sit In The Dark & Pout ]
[ Wallowing About The Injustices Of Humanity ]
[ You Got To To Be Too Tired To Scream & Shout ]

[ Everytime You Looked Around ]
[ You Found ]
[ That The Whole Gravity Of The State Kept Pounding ]
[ You Into The Ground ]

[ The World Started Spinning ]
[ You Saw No End ]
[ You Never Noticed When This Mess Was Even Beginning ]
[ They Left You With Nothing Left To Defend ]
[ Nor Was There Any Chance Of Winning ]

[ What Was Left? ]
[ Going Back To A Job Where You fHad To Constantly Watch Your Step? ]

[ What Would Happen To Your Free Will? ]
[ When The Only Way Of Feeling Okay ]
[ Would Be Taking An Anxiety Pill ]
[ (3×) A Day ]

[ You Fail To See The Joy In Being A Pharmaceutical Experiment ]
[ Always Feeling Different ]
[ & Not Confident ]

[ The Event Broke You @ The Time ]
[ All Because Those (2) Male Juveniles ]
[ Wanted To Commit One More Major Crime ]
[ & Go Out In Style ]

[ You Were Never Given The Choice Of Having A Representative From The Union Stand By Your Side ]
[ They Never Gave You The Chance To Decide ]
[ Or Confide ]
[ So Afterwards There Was Nothing Left Of Your Pride! ]

[ Because Of Your Lack Of Training, Your Hope Of Figuring Things Out Were Dampened ]
[ & Hampered ]
[ Because Through The Whole History Of Being Opened ]
[ This Event Had Never Before Happened ]

[ Getting On The Right Path ]
[ Became As Complicated ]
[ As Solving Story Problems In Calculus Math ]
[ Without A Single Number Being Duplicated ]

[ Because Feeling This Lost Was Unknown Territory For You ]
[ There Was Nothing To Do ]
[ Because No One Had A Clue ]
[ About How To Keep You From Feeling So Blue ]

[ & Down On Your Luck ]
[ You Wish That It Would Have Been As Easy As Needing To Duck ]
[ So That Made Every Day Suck! ]

[ But You Persevered & Came Out On The Other End, A Much Better & Stronger Man ]
[ You No Longer Feel Like You Are Sinking In Quicksand ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(489)▪︎[ Will AI Replace Free Thinking? … 2025 ]

[ Robots Are Designed To Save Time ]
[ But The Technology Can Also Be Misused ]
[ To Commit Crimes ]
[ & The Technology Will Be Abused ]

[ Being Human It Is Not About Saving ]
[ Time, It Is About How It’s Spent ]
[ It Is Not About Doing Something Good Or Misbehaving ]
[ All That Matters Is Realizing Where The Time Went ]

[ Spending Time With Others ]
[ Or Spending Time Alone ]
[ Even If You Have Sister’s Or Brother’s ]
[ Sometimes You Don’t Ever Reach Out To Them On The Phone ]

[ Being Around The Family That You Grew Up With ]
[ Doesn’t Seem To Matter Much ]
[ If They Are Not Even On Your Short Phone List ]

[ The One Good Thing About About Modern Tech ]
[ Machines Are Logical ]
[ So They Do Not Have The Ability To Talk Out Of Both Sides Of Their Neck ]
[ & It Sometimes Sounds Comical ]
[ When They Try To Hold You In Check ]

[ With The Fast Oncoming Train That AI Seems To Be ]
[ Did The Maker Of The Technology ]
[ Ever Foresee ]
[ How It Will Stop People From Thinking That They Will Ever Feel Free ]

[ Again? ]
[ Once Technology Starts Solving Problems On Its Own ]
[ Where Will This End? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(486)▪︎[ A Final Goodbye … 12/22/2025 ]

[ It Is With A Heavy Heart ]
[ That You Must Say ]
[ Something Is Going To Happen In The Next Hour That Is Tearing Your Insides Apart ]
[ In (100) Different Ways ]

[ You Wouldn’t Be Lying ]
[ If You Were To Say Each Day In The Last Couple Of Weeks ]
[ Your Dog Started Dying ]

[ Little By Little & Pound By Pound ]
[ You Found ]
[ That Something Inside Of Her Was Killing Her, But She Never Made A Sound ]

[ You Never Knew What Kind Of Trauma She Went Through ]
[ Before She Ever Set A Paw Down In Your House ]
[ It Is So Cruel What Some People Do ]
[ But Even Through Her Abuse, She Probably Stayed As Quiet As A Small Field Mouse ]

[ It Probably Wasn’t A Voluntary Choice ]
[ For Her To Not Use Her Voice ]
[ You Have No Idea What Happened When She Used To Bark ]
[ Maybe She Was Punished Because A Past Owner Thought That When She Did It Only Sounded Like Noise ]

[ That Owner Told You That Roxie Was (5yrs) Old ]
[ When You Later Took Her To The ‘Vet ]
[ You Found Out Her Age Was Closer To (8), You Felt That Last Owner Was Really Bold ]
[ Because Lying To You To Get Rid Of Roxie, Was Pretty Cold ]

[ The Night That You Got Her, She Never Even Made The Slightest Sound ]
[ Because You Did Not Hear Anything When You Got Up In The Middle Of The Night ]
[ You Thought You Would Look Around ]
[ You Really Wondered Where Your New Dog Would Be Found ]
[ It Did Not Take You Long To Find Her, But You Were Astonished @ The Sight ]

[ She Was Curled Up On Your Recliner Chair ]
[ In A Deep ]
[ Sleep! ]
[ That Was Where You Usually Sat, But She Seemed To Not Care ]

[ Or Maybe She Actually Did ]
[ Maybe That Was The Point ]
[ You Smiled Like A Little Kid ]

[ You Actually Wondered If She Jumped Up & Went To Sleep Because That Was Where You Were Sitting When The (2) Of You Met? ]
[ You Actually Wondered, “How Much Better Can This New Situation Get?” ]
[ If You Were To Wager That It Wouldn’t ]
[ The Other Person Would Still Be Laughing Because You Would Really Lose That Bet ]
[ You Shouldn’t ]
[ Have Thought That She Did Not Want To Sleep Some Place Where She Could FINALLY Have A Peaceful Rest ]
[ & She Couldn’t ]
[ Have Figured Out The Place That Was Best? ]

[ You Failed To See ]
[ @ The Time ]
[ That She Already Figured Out Who She Wanted Her Person To Be ]
[ It Would Have Also Been A Crime ]
[ If She Did Not Also Feel Free ]

[ Free From ANY Abuse ]
[ Free From ANY Bad Excuse ]
[ Free From ANY Adult Being Around Her That Was Very Obtuse ]

[ About Why She Got Hit, Shocked Or Given A Hard Kick ]
[ The Thought About The Amount Of Abuse She Might Have Suffered ]
[ Really Made Your Stomach Sick ]

[ One Thing That You Are Sure ]
[ Roxie Was The Sweetest, Friendliest, Quietest Animal With Fur ]
[ She Was So Quiet ]
[ & Her Heart Was Pure ]

[ That Owner Was In A Hurry To Put Her In A Different Home ]
[ She Told You That We Could Have Her For A (3) Night Trial Basis ]
[ You Knew That It Would Take Awhile Before Her True Personality Would Be Shown ]
[ Alot Of Things About Her Past Was Unknown ]
[ So That Owner Left, After Telling You To Text Her On The Phone ]

[ (2) Days Later You Text That Owner To Let Her Know ]
[ That We Wanted Roxie To Stay ]
[ That We Never Wanted To Let Her Go ]

[ Once She Started To Feel Comfortable Her Personality Came Out ]
[ There Was Not A Single Doubt ]
[ That She Never Would Sit Around & Pout ]

[ Again ]
[ Because It Would Have Been A Sin ]
[ If You Did Not Show When The Love Would Begin ]

[ Everynight You Would Give Her Daddy Time & Get Down With Her On The Floor ]
[ You Wouldn’t Stop ]
[ Even If There Was A Knock On The Door ]

[ But Everything Changed When You Were In The Hospital To Have Surgery On Your Spine ]
[ Roxie Started To Become Ill ]
[ So Your Wife Told You, “No, Everything Is Not Fine” ]

[ Roxie Was Getting Sick After Eating ]
[ But Nothing Had Changed With Her Feedings ]
[ Since She Wouldn’t Make A Sound, You Never Knew What She Was Feeling ]
[ Getting This News Felt So Defeating ]

[ We Then Took Her To The ‘Vet ]
[ For Some Blood Work & Other Tests ]

[ Everything Began To Get Hazy ]
[ The Tests Came Back Fine ]
[ But She Kept Losing Weight Like Crazy ]

[ The ‘Vet Said There Was Nothing They Could Do ]
[ Your Fear Grew ]
[ Because Nobody Had A Clue ]

[ When She Stopped Eating All Together ]
[ & She Became As Light As A Feather ]
[ Her Weight Was The Lightest Ever ]

[ You Made The Hardest Call To The ‘Vet To Make That Dreaded Appointment ]
[ Because Roxie’s Energy Level Was So Spent ]
[ It Was Like Roxie Knew What This Meant ]

[ When We Took Roxie To The ‘Vet, She Was So Lethargic ]
[ & Sick ]
[ You Wish The ‘Vet Had Some Kind Of Trick ]
[ From Which She Could Pick ]

[ To Make Roxie Feel All Better, But That Was Not To Be ]
[ When We All Went Into A Room ]
[ The ‘Vet Could See ]

[ & It Became The Hardest Decision We Could Make ]
[ This Would Be The Last Time That You Would Ever See Roxie Awake ]

[ Roxie Laid Down On The Blanket ]
[ Because She Felt So Tired ]
[ & She Looked Like She Was Set ]
[ You Knew That It Is So Hard To Say Goodbye To A Loving Pet ]

[ We Were Only Able To Have Her (9mo’s) ]
[ This Was Ripping Out Your Guts ]

[ When The ‘Vet Mentioned Cheese ]
[ She Raised Her Head Off The Blanket Then Went To Her Knees ]
[ She Looked @ The ‘Vet As If Saying, “Oh, Yes Please!” ]

[ That Caused Everyone In The Room To Laugh ]
[ That Really Cut The Tension In The Room In ½ ]

[ The ‘Vet Came In & Gave Her The Shot That Made Her Go To Sleep For The Last Time ]
[ So This Is Where You Have To End This Rhyme ]

[ We All Love You Roxie! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(485)▪︎[ Angel’s In The Room … 2025 ]

[ There Are Times When Angel’s Actually Do Roam The Earth ]
[ You Know That When A Bell Rings ]
[ Everytime There Is A Child’s Birth ]

[ It Is Not Always The Norm ]
[ For An Angel To Show Themselves ]
[ In Human Form ]

[ They Just Might ]
[ Take Flight ]
[ During The Morning ]
[ Instead Of Always Being @ Night ]

[ They Are Not Like Santa ]
[ Who Is Always Looking For All Of The Good Girls & Boys ]
[ They Don’t Have A GPS Antenna ]
[ So They Can Deliver Goodies & Toys ]

[ Angel’s & Santa Claus’s Purpose In Life Are Worlds Apart ]
[ Santa Might Live In The Mind ]
[ While Angel’s Live In The Heart ]
[ Because They Are So Kind ]

[ Unfortunately There Times When An Angel Will Appear Before A Man’s Eyes Right Before Death ]
[ Maybe Drug Abusers Are Trying To To See The Angels]
[ When They Start Smoking Meth ]

[ They Keep Wanting To Get To An Even Higher High ]
[ Hopefully They Pass Out ]
[ Before They Die ]

[ Angel’s Will Sometimes Lead A Man Down A Better Path ]
[ Sad To Say That If You Have Test Anxiety In Class ]
[ Angel’s Will Not Help You During Your Finals Test In Math ]

[ Children Tend To See Angel’s More Often Than Adult’s, Because They Really Believe ]
[ If An Adult Told His Friends That They Saw One ]
[ His Friends Would Probably Think That He Was Hiding Something Up His Sleeve ]

[ Maybe That’s Why Adults Won’t Admit ]
[ That They Ever Noticed It ]

[ It Wouldn’t Sound Believable To See An Angel Fly ]
[ By ]
[ Unless You Were Probably High ]

[ Sometimes Angel’s Do Good Deed’s ]
[ Other Times They Help Those That Are In Need ]

[ They Don’t Ever Give Out Money ]
[ They Probabaly Wouldn’t Lead Someone To The Land Of Milk & Honey ]

[ Rest Assure That Angel’s Are Here To Stay ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(462)▪︎[ Don’t Poke The Bear … 2025 ]

[ When The Winter Wind ]
[ Begins ]

[ To Blow The Rain @ You In A Sideways Manner ]
[ Hitting You So Hard ]
[ It Makes You Feel Battered ]

[ What’s A Guy To Do ]
[ When Water Is So Deep ]
[ It Fills Your Shoe’s? ]
[ You Feel Like They Might Fall Apart, Because You Bought Them @ A Second-Hand Store, For Really Cheap ]

[ You Might Feel Like Mother Nature Is Angry ]
[ Could Mother Nature Ever Get Hangry? ]

[ It Happens In Human’s All The Time ]
[ The Wind Might Get That Way ]
[ When It Notices The Huge Mountain It Must Climb ]

[ Time & Time Again ]
[ Human’s Panic If They Have Such A Huge Task In Front Of Them That They Will Need To Begin ]

[ The Next Morning Or Night ]
[ When People Panic Once They Focus In What Might ]
[ Be In Their Sight ]
[ Some Even Turn Things Into A Fight ]

[ Is It A Fight About Something External? ]
[ Or Is It Something That Has Become Internal ]
[ That Will Mess With Your Nocturnal? ]

[ When Human’s Panic Or Get Hangry, They Become A Poked Bear To Be Around ]
[ Through Experience, You’ve Found ]
[ That It Does Not Do Any Good ]
[ To Play Dead & Fall On The Ground ]
[ It Is Because The Poked Bear Never Understood ]

[ The Game ]
[ Maybe To The Poked Bear, It Know’s It By A Different Name ]
[ Which Is Why The Whole Concept Has Never Been The Same ]
[ So Now, Is There Someone To Blame? ]

[ Not Really, If You Are Still Referring To Mother Nature ]
[ She Has Been Here Long Before The Thought Of Making You Was Ever In Your Father’s Brain ]
[ So She Is Very Mature ]
[ & Will Probably Last Long After You’re Gone, Without Much Of A Strain ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(447)▪︎[ The Holiday Season … 2025 ]

[ Yo Ho Ho, It ‘Tis The Holiday Season Of The Year ]
[ When It Is Time To Go Broke ]
[ It Is Supposed To Bring You Good Cheer ]
[ & When You Start Mixing Some Kind Of Alcohol, In With Your Diet Coke ]

[ Nobody Cares About The Other (2) Holidays ]
[ The Effects Of Those Holidays Do Not Really Last ]
[ The Last Holiday Of The Year Pays ]
[ Really Fast ]

[ That Is The Holiday That Retail Businesses Really Count On ]
[ There Is Not Any Money Left In Their Banks ]
[ When The Year Is Almost Gone ]

[ Working In Retail Security For (8) Long Years Sure Took Its Toll ]
[ & Working Those Holiday Seasons Really Kicked Your Ass ]
[ If You Were To Go Around To All Of The Full Time Workers & Take A Poll ]
[ If Given The Choice Of Working The Holiday Season’s, Most Of Them Would Take A Pass ]

[ There Were (2) Holiday Season’s, Before Working Security, When You Even Took The Foolish Chance @ Working @ A Portland Area “Toys R Us” Store ]
[ It Was Wall To Wall Kids From The Very Second The Manager Opened The Door ]
[ It Seemed Like When A Parent Left Their Child On The Floor ]
[ They Would Run To Their Car While Yelling, “I Will Pick Them Back Up Around (4)” ]

[ It Made Alot Of Employees That Were Restocking The Shelves On The Aisles, Kind Of Nervous ]
[ The Consensus Question That Most Employees Had ]
[ “Since When Did We Also Become A Babysitting Service?” ]
[ “For Every Mom Or Dad?” ]

[ You Had No Patience For Telling A Little Kid, “Don’t Run!” ]
[ Kids Were Only There To Have Fun ]
[ You Were Only There To Get Your Assigned Jobs Done ]

[ Working Retail During The Holiday’s Is The Best Birth Control You Could Ever Have ]
[ If You Were Ever Riding The Fence About Having Kids In The Future ]
[ Working Around All Of The Screaming, Whining Kids, Will Cut Your Want In ½ ]

[ If Your Significant Other Doesn’t Understand The Work That You Have To Do ]
[ They Won’t Understand The Extended Hours ]
[ & They Won’t Like All The Time That They Can’t Be With You ]

[ Some Partner’s Never Understand The Other Person’s Job’s ]
[ More Than ½ The Time ]
[ Men Do Not Understand Why Their Partner Sob’s ]

[ Retail During The Holidays Is Really A Mind Changer ]
[ The Holidays Have Transitioned Into Chasing Or Spending The Mighty Dollar ]
[ Lost In The Transition Was The Fictitional Story About The Baby That Was Born In The Manger ]

[ What Happend To The Sharing Of Love ]
[ & Giving Your Spouse A Gift? ]
[ Now All You Remember Is The Last Customer That Gave You A Hard Shove ]
[ Then Causing You To Work An Overtime Shift ]

[ The Holidays Create Their Own Individual Mess ]
[ It Causes A Business ]
[ & The Employees, So Much Stress ]
[ Especially If The Yearly Sales Outlook Comes Out Looking Like They Are Going To Make Alot Less ]

[ Neighbors No Longer Know The Name Of Someone Who Lives In The Next House ]
[ Some People Only Want To See Their Neighbor’s Spouse ]

[ Totally Forgetting The Line, “If You Settle In To A Married Life” ]
[ “Do Not Go Next Door & Try To Covet Your Neighbor’s Wife” ]

[ These Are Some Of The Main Reasons ]
[ Why You Call The Time Around Christmas ]
[ The “Silly Season” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(442)▪︎[ Some Well Thought Out, Thoughts … 11/2/2025 ]

[ Hi Ho, Hi Ho ]
[ You Want To Tell Her That You Miss Your Needle Terribly ]
[ Or Did She Already Know? ]

[ In The Early Morning, It Is Way Too Lonely & Quiet ]
[ It Is Hard Waking Up ]
[ When The House Is Totally Silent ]

[ Unfortunately Until She Returns To Her Rightful Place ]
[ Written Words Are Just That ]
[ Until You Express Them To Her, Face-to-Face ]

[ Your Surgery Is Coming Up Really Fast ]
[ You Hate Thinking Of The Aborted Surgery That Was Attempted Last ]
[ But It Just Hangs There, In Your Past ]

[ It Is Hard To Think On The Positive Side ]
[ When There Are Days Like Today, That Kicks @ Your Pride ]
[ It Takes You On A Downward Slide ]
[ Towards The Thought That This Is Your Last Ride ]

[ You Used To Be Afraid Of Death ]
[ But Not Anymore ]
[ Sometimes When You Close Your Eyes @ Night, You Hope That You Would Soon Take Your Last Breath ]
[ Because Death Will Be Knocking On Your Front Door ]

[ Maybe If You Don’t Breathe Heavy Or Cough ]
[ He Will Cross Your Name Off ]

[ That Would Just Be A Taunt ]
[ Because That Is Not Exactly What You Want ]

[ You Are Not Homicidal ]
[ So Please Do Not Worry ]
[ You Are Not Suicidal ]
[ Even Though You Kind Of Seem To Want Death To Come In A Hurry ]

[ What Are You Going To Miss? ]
[ You Cannot Remember Even The Last Year ]
[ That Your Wife, Of Almost (30yrs), Even Wanted A Passionate Kiss ]

[ Will You Miss Another, “Shut The F#*# Up” Spelled Out In A Text? ]
[ Sent To You By Your Loving Son? ]
[ Wondering What He Will Say Next ]
[ Sure Can Create Plenty Of Guesses That Can Sound Fun! ]
[ You Sure Am Glad That He Never Found The Bullet Proof Vest ]
[ That Was Lying Under Your Gun ]

[ You Had Them Sold ]
[ & Taken Far Away From Your Home ]
[ Because You Never Wanted To Find Out How Ice Cold ]
[ He Could Have Become If He Had Known ]

[ (62yrs) On This Earth ]
[ Was Not A Smooth Ride Since Your Birth ]

[ But Then, Nobody Has Ever Said That They Had The Perfect Childhood ]
[ You Survived ]
[ So It Must Have Been Pretty Good ]
[ It Doesn’t Take Downing A Whole Bottle Of Cheap Wine ]
[ To Wonder If Everything That You Were Told As A Child Might Have Been Vastly Misunderstood ]

[ You Feel That You Have Been Very Selective ]
[ With The Answers That Were Written Down ]
[ In Your Advance Directive ]

[ Some Might Say That You Are Being Hasty With This ]
[ If Anyone Wants To Know Your Reasons ]
[ Give You A Minute & You Will Give Them A Full List ]

[ Your Mind Is Completely Clear & Sane ]
[ You Are Not Bordering On The Insane ]
[ But You Are Oh So So Tired Of The Pain ]

[ When They Say, “Everyone Has Pain” That Much Is True ]
[ Unless Someone Wants To Pick Up Your Shoes ]
[ They Don’t Have A Clue ]
[ About All Of The Missed Social Cues ]
[ It’s Not Like You Are Feeling Down & Blue ]
[ It Is Not Like You Haven’t Been Paying Your Dues ]

[ You Did Stop & Pay What Was Due @ Every Tollbooth Along The Way ]
[ But You Never Paid Extra ]
[ Because You Never Wanted To Prolong Your Stay ]
[ For Even A Day ]

[ The Emotional Pain Is The Worst ]
[ That’s The One That Lingers ]
[ & Always Hurts ]
[ From Your Toes, Clear To The Ends Of Your Fingers ]

[ The Pain Is Slow ]
[ It Begins Down Below ]
[ Really Low ]
[ That Kind Of Pain Never Heals Because There Is Not The Much Needed Blood Flow ]

[ The Invisible Wounds Never Heal ]
[ Don’t Let Anyone Try To Convince You That The Pain Is Not Real! ]
[ The Energy That They Steal ]
[ Gives You That Rundown Feel ]

[ You Do Not Wish To Have A Service Of Any Kind ]
[ The Less Your Name Is Said ]
[ The Sooner It Disappears From Everybody’s Mind ]

[ You Have Been Losing Your Will To Live ]
[ Over The Last Couple Of Years ]
[ Sometimes You Feel Like You Don’t Have Anything Left To Give ]

[ You Have Been Trying To Slow Down Your Breathing ]
[ Most Of The Time You Don’t Really Feel Like Eating ]
[ Yes, Needle, Bump, CB2.0EV & Ms. O. You Know That This Sounds Self-Defeating ]
[ But How Do You Put A Positive Spin On Leaving? ]

[ The Only Family You Have Left Is Nicole, Your Wife ]
[ You Feel Like An Albatross Around Her Neck ]
[ But With Your Death, You Hope That She Could Start A Whole New & Exciting Life ]
[ As You Drop The Mic, Can You Ask, “Who’s Picking Up This Check?” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(438)▪︎[ The Tears Of A Clown … 2025 ]

[ No One Ever Understands The Tears Of A Clown ]
[ Until The Circus Comes Back Around ]
[ & Puts Up Their Big Tent, In The Newest Town ]

[ A Clown Believes In The Opposite Of Violence ]
[ They Try To Put On Their Bravest Face ]
[ But They Suffer In Silence ]
[ For Fear Of Being Labled A Disgrace ]

[ To The Ultra-Secretive, Humble Clown Brotherhood ]
[ They Feel That They Are Vastly Misunderstood ]
[ In The Worldwide Clown Neighborhood ]

[ Does A Tearful Clown Ever Turn To One Another? ]
[ Why Can’t They Turn To A Brother ]
[ From Another Mother? ]

[ Is It For Fear Of Shame? ]
[ Or Nothing But A Finger Pointing Blame ]
[ Game? ]

[ Nothing Breaks The Chain Of Events ]
[ That Creeps Towards Fear ]
[ The Time That Has Been Spent ]
[ That Can Go On For A Continuous Year ]
[ Under That Mobile Tent ]

[ It Can Go On Without A Break ]
[ There Is No Money To Make ]
[ When The Head Supervisor Is On The Take ]
[ Because He Signed On The Dotted Line In The Form Of A Handshake ]

[ With The Devil ]
[ When The Head Supervisor Is Pure Evil ]

[ It Makes For A Poor Environment In The Emotional Sense ]
[ Because The Amount Of Pressure To Perform ]
[ Is Immense ]
[ It Is Not Near The Norm ]
[ For The Relations To Be So Tense ]

[ When The Clowns Are Treated Like A Dog ]
[ Because The Head Supervisor Wants To Live High On The Hog ]
[ Sometimes The Clowns Would Perform While Being In A Mental Fog ]

[ The Question Though Is, “How Do Hurting Clowns Heal?” ]
[ Is It From A Good Meal? ]
[ Making Sure Everything They Hear Is Real? ]

[ Maybe So ]
[ Or Maybe Not ]
[ The Only One That Will Know ]
[ Is The One Being Put On The Spot ]
[ Maybe The One Feeling Low ]
[ Thinks That When It Comes Down To It, This Doesn’t Play Out Like They Thought ]

[ It Would ]
[ Or Should ]
[ They Know That They Did The Best That They Could ]

[ They Will Just Play It Cool ]
[ Because Their Wife Is Not Married To A Fool ]
[ Their Next Adventure ]
[ Is Going On To Willamette Law School ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(432)▪︎[ The Discovered Needle … 2025 ]

[ Every Morning When She Wakes You, It Helps You See ]
[ How Real The Day Can Turn Out To Be ]

[ The Sun In Her Beautiful Eyes ]
[ When She Helps You Rise ]
[ Does Make You Realize ]
[ That You Are One Of The Luckiest Guys ]

[ & You Know That You Are One Of The Luckiest Client’s On This Earth ]
[ It Did Not Take Her Long ]
[ To Prove Her Value & Worth ]
[ & The Decision To Hire Her Was Not @ All Wrong ]

[ You Always Wanted To Find Her CG Twin ]
[ To Make Everyday A Win-Win ]
[ But Then You Would Sit & Wonder ]
[ “When Could This Other CG Begin?” ]

[ You Hope That She Stays With You As You Attempt To Maneuver Your Way Through The Remaining Years Of Your Life ]
[ She Also Goes Outside Of Any To-Do List She Might Have ]
[ To Do So Much To Help Both You & Your Beautiful Wife ]
[ Cut All Of The Stress We Have Here By ½ ]

[ You Have Always Been Very Thankful That You Were Able To Find That 1 In A Billion Needle In The Haystack ]
[ You Are Now Off Carina ]
[ You Hope To Never Find The Need To Go Back! ]

[ The Way That She Comes In, It Relaxes You, Like You Are @ The Ocean ]
[ She Is Real & Genuine ]
[ Because She Never Seems Like She Is Just Going Through The Motions ]

[ She Came In Since Day One Knowing What She Needed To Do ]
[ She Does Not Call Out, While Faking The Flu ]
[ She Is A Self-Starter ]
[ & Does Not Wait For Some Kind Of Social Cue ]

[ She Keeps The Mood Light ]
[ She Checks In With You, Whenever You Are Out Of Her Sight ]
[ She Is Empathetic ]
[ Because She Understands Your Plight ]

[ Her Outside Worries Are Checked @ The Door ]
[ You Have Enough Of Your Own ]
[ & She Has Not Come To Give You More ]

[ Each Passing Day Makes Her Look More Of A Gem ]
[ & Less Of A Financial Problem ]
[ Or Emotional Burden ]

[ Before She Comes ]
[ You Never Feel The Need To Take Inventory Of Every Plate & Cup ]
[ She Has A Sense Of Humor, So She Understands Your Sarcastic Puns ]
[ She Is Not A Theft Risk, So You Do Not Need To Lock All Of Your Valuable’s Up ]

[ When She Comes To Your Home, She Always Keeps Things Real ]
[ She Helps You Feel ]
[ Like You Are A Big Deal ]

[ Is All Of This A Relief? ]
[ Is This What You Want To Believe? ]
[ Or @ The Young Age Of (62) ]
[ Are You Being Quite Naive? ]

[ Maybe It Is Understood ]
[ That Nobody Is This Good ]

[ But Not To Sound Rude ]
[ That Is Not What You Conclude ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

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(403)▪︎[ Family Is A Negative (6) Letter Word … 9/21/2025 ]

[ One Time When You Were Fooled, It Was Because You Let Your Guard Down ]
[ & Said That Your In-Laws Were Special, Like Family ]
[ Now You Have Ended Up Looking Like The Clown ]
[ Because That Is Not How They Wanted Things To Be ]

[ You Should Have Had The Strength ]
[ To Keep Them @ Arms Length ]

[ On The Bench ]
[ Or In A Toolbox ]
[ Like An Unused Wrench ]
[ Secured With (2) Locks ]

[ Because You Showed Weakness ]
[ Things Turned Into One Big Hot Mess ]
[ Now, All It Causes Is Stress ]

[ In The Beinning, You Thought You Were Blessed ]
[ & A Little Bit Impressed ]
[ But Now That The Bad Feelings Have Progressed ]
[ You Feel Kind Of Depressed ]

[ You Feel, A Little Bit Lost ]
[ You Can Only Guess ]
[ That Is The Cost ]

[ Of Putting Your Trust ]
[ In The Wrong People ]
[ Who Easily Pushed You To The Side So You Can Watch Everything Bust ]

[ If They Didn’t Love You As Family, Why Did They Do As Such ]
[ Now (30+) Years ]
[ Do Not Mean That Much ]

[ If They Never Wanted A Son ]
[ Why Did They Call You & Treat You As One ]
[ Well, They Can Still Be Happy ]
[ Because They Still Have None ]

[ The Egg Is Squarely On Your Face ]
[ You Guess When It Came To The Family Table ]
[ You Never Really Had A Place ]

[ Maybe That Was The Time That You Should Have Left en Haste ]
[ (30+) Years Of Effort ]
[ Sure Turned Into Toxic Waste ]

[ Why, Why, Why? ]
[ Do People Come Up To You, & Look You In The Eye’s ]
[ & Do Nothing But Lie, Lie, Lie? ]
[ (30+) Years Worth Of Lie’s ]

[ Disgusting, Hateful & Full Of Spite ]
[ Now, Nothing Feels Right ]
[ How Can You Fight ]
[ Something That Isn’t In Direct Sight? ]

[ You Wish That You NEVER Had Taken Their Name ]
[ Carrying It As Yours ]
[ Now Doesn’t Feel The Same ]
[ & That Is Describing The Feelings Kind Of Tame ]
[ It Is Like Putting Your Raft In The River & Not Be Given A Set Of Oars ]
[ Maybe This Was One Long Drawn Out Game ]

[ How Come Something That Used To Feel So Strong ]
[ Turned Out To Be So So Wrong? ]

[ You Need To Take The High Road ]
[ Because Now You Know ]
[ If You Continue To Be Suckered Into Their Happy Abode ]
[ It Just Sets You Up To Be In The Middle Of Another One Of Their Shit Show’s ]

[ Now YOU Should Pull Up Your Big Boy Pants ]
[ To Take A Stand ]
[ Trying To Avoid The Insects & Ants ]
[ & Draw Your Own Line In The Sand ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

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