(245)▪︎[ The Sad Clown … 2025 ]

[ Have You Ever Wondered How Much Effort It Takes To Willingly Give ]
[ Someone A Smile? ]
[ That Seems Like That Would Be A Great Way To Live ]
[ For Awhile ]

[ It Will Take More Effort To Live With A Frown ]
[ Nobody Wants To Go Through Life ]
[ Walking Aimlessly Around With The Face Of A Sad Clown ]

[ Clowns Are Supposed To Put On A Happy Face ]
[ Nobody Wants To Always Be Down ]
[ Do They Have To Choose Between Leather Or Lace ]
[ When An Unhappy Clown Walks Around ]
[ People Probably Give Them Alot Of Space ]

[ Nobody Wants To Go Near ]
[ Them ]
[ For Fear ]
[ That A Simple Word Could Start A Big Problem ]

[ Would A Sad Clown Have A Short Fuse? ]
[ Are They Always Looking For Someone To Use? ]
[ When Things Start Going Downhill ]
[ Are They Always The One That Would Accuse? ]

[ Other People First? ]
[ They Start To Get This Unquenchable Thirst ]

[ To Always Be Right ]
[ Even When They Are Wrong ]
[ They Won’t Back Down From A Fight ]
[ Because The Desire Comes On So Strong ]

[ Nobody Is Right All Of The Time ]
[ They Don’t Feel ]
[ That Lying Is Not Even Close To Being A Crime ]
[ So Lying Has Never Been A Big Deal ]

[ They Will Be The First One To Attack ]
[ But They Would Also Be The Last Person ]
[ That Would Give A Stranger The Shirt Off Their Back ]
[ You Never Know Which Version ]
[ Of The Sad Clown Will Deal Cards Off The Bottom Of The Stack ]

[ When They Cheat ]
[ Or Steal ]
[ They Do Not Ever Want To Be Beat ]
[ Or Feel ]

[ Emotions Are Not Their Thing ]
[ Even When They Seek ]
[ To Finish His Pursuit In Getting Enough Votes To Be The King ]
[ To Do This It Gives The Outside World A Small Peek ]

[ Of His Decades Long Desire ]
[ To Cover Up His Lies ]
[ & Maybe Be Able To Explain Why He Is Such A Prolific Liar ]

[ Some Say ]
[ That On Most Days ]
[ He Will Look For A Way ]
[ To Find That One Gimmick That Really Pays ]

[ As Sure As America Is Connected To The Bald Eagle ]
[ Whatever He Finds ]
[ It Does Not Have To Be Legal ]
[ In The Public’s Minds ]

[ Sad Clowns Would Prefer That Their Adventures Not Be On The Legal Side ]
[ It Is Much Easier For Them To Remember How & When They Lied ]
[ But It Does Make For A Bumpy Ride ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(275)▪︎[ The Twist … 2025 ]

[ What If Your Life Was Turned Upside Down & Twisted To The Left? ]
[ Then Twisted Back To The Right? ]
[ Would You Have To Watch Your Step ]
[ Before You Are Able To Turn On The Light? ]

[ Life Is Like That ]
[ It Seems To Be A Proveable Fact ]
[ That You Are Raised & Directed On How To Act ]

[ If Other’s Are Acting In Front Of You ]
[ How Do You Continue ]
[ Knowing What To Do? ]

[ Do You Just Want To Wing It? ]
[ Bit By Bit ]

[ Everything Counts ]
[ But If You Are Not Careful ]
[ The Bills Will Mount ]
[ & Then You Would Have To Empty Your Bilfold ]

[ Then Where Are You @ ]
[ If You Keep Eating Processed Food ]
[ You Could Get Fat ]
[ & That Wouldn’t Be Good ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(448)▪︎[ No Progress … 2025 ]

[ Well, They Say That You Can Buy Roses In Red ]
[ Or You Could Buy Some Tulips In Blue ]
[ Most Of Society Is Really Screwed Up In The Head ]
[ But Some Would Ask, “Well, Who Knew?” ]

[ It Is Actually Good To Say ]
[ “That There Are Many Days” ]
[ “When They Are Not Feeling Okay” ]

[ The Homeless Do Not Care About Simple Flowers ]
[ When They Do Not Have The Power ]
[ To Take Any Showers ]

[ When You Don’t Know How To Express ]
[ Yourself ]
[ Does Success ]
[ Stay On The Garage Shelf? ]

[ How Do You Even Try To Get Out Of Your Own Way ]
[ It Never Happened Yesterday ]
[ Tomorrow Will You Have To Explain ]
[ What Happened Today ]
[ When You Showed Such Obvious Disdain? ]

[ For The Ways That Your Co-Worker Has Tried To Show You ]
[ There Have Been Struggles ]
[ In What She Is Showing You What To Do ]

[ Why Is That? ]
[ Is It Because She Is Showing You That You Must Be Wearing Many Hat’s? ]

[ If You Don’t Know How To Get Rid Of All The Excess ]
[ How Can You Process ]
[ All Of The Progress? ]

[ You Must Show A Thirst ]
[ For Coming In First ]

[ Do You Think That Anyone Will Remember Or Record ]
[ Who Will Come In Second? ]
[ No, People Might Get Bored ]
[ When You Fail To Show Any Momentum ]

[ Slow Is As Slow Does ]
[ Things Won’t Move ]
[ Just Because ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(164)▪︎[ The Day Is Long … 2025 ]

[ The Day Is Long ]
[ But The Night Seems Even Longer ]
[ Whenever You Hear A Sad Song ]
[ Does It Make You Stronger? ]

[ Will It Make You Feel Younger? ]
[ But Without The Hunger? ]

[ Maybe It Will Give You Stronger Willpower ]
[ Minute By Minute ]
[ Stronger By The Hour ]

[ Why Would It Take So Long To Do Its Thing? ]
[ Will Music Make Your Ears Ring? ]
[ When You Come To The Table, What Will You Bring? ]

[ Will You Bring Food Or Something To Talk About? ]
[ If We’re Eating, That’s One Thing ]
[ But When We Talk, Things Get Loud ]
[ Nobody Wants The Words To Sting ]

[ You Have To Remember That When You Come To The Table, There Are Alot Of Ego’s Involved ]
[ Will Ideas Cause A Problem ]
[ That Words Cannot Solve? ]

[ Whatever Happened To The “Me” Generation? ]
[ Were They Put In Time Out? ]
[ Then Eventually Sent To Segregation? ]

[ The “Me” Generation Only Worried About Themselves ]
[ They Only Benefited From What They Did ]
[ They Would Never Even Take Up Coming To The Aid Of Someone Else ]
[ You Could See That Selfish Trait When They Were Just A Kid ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(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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