[ Dear Marianno ]
[ Here A Few Things That I Thought You Should Know ]
[ If I Was Talking To My Favorite Caregiver ]
[ I Would Talk Really Slow ]
[ Before You & Your Heroic Friends Came ]
[ We Never Knew When The Fires Would End ]
[ Or Would We Ever See Rain ]
[ Everyone Would Shout ]
[ That They Had Doubt ]
[ About ]
[ When The Fires Would Be Put Out ]
[ It Took More Than Effort & Water To Take Those
Fires Apart ]
[ It Took A Whole Lot Of Heart ]
[ You Don’t Fight Those Fires On A Dare ]
[ So What Incentive Got You Out There? ]
[ You Risk Your Lives Because You Care ]
[ You Care About The Thousands Of People That You Will
Never Meet ]
[ You Fight The Good Fight Until You Hurt ]
[ From The Top Of Your Head Clear Down To The Bottom Of
Your Feet ]
[ It Is NOT Because Of The Big Paychecks That You Get ]
[ & You Know That You Can’t Control How These Fires Are Set ]
[ But The Paychecks ARE Nice ]
[ Sometimes They Make You Look Twice ]
[ But It Is Not Worth The Ultimate Price ]
[ Watch Out For Falling Branches & Fire In The Roots ]
[ & Ground So Hot ]
[ You Can Feel It Through Your Boots ]
[ You Look Up High ]
[ Towards The Sky ]
[ & Low ]
[ @ The Ground ]
[ You Have To Be Aware Of How The Winds Blow ]
[ & Which Way It Goes Around ]
[ It Is Way Overdue ]
[ & They Finally Caught A Clue ]
[ On How They Can Better Treat You ]
[ Putting You Up In A Good Hotel ]
[ So You Could Shower ]
[ & Hopefully Letting You Sleep Well ]
[ So You Can Fight Back The Power ]
[ That Makes Your Sounding Scenery Look Like Hell ]
[ Are You Tired Of All Of The Fun? ]
[ Of Always Being On The Run? ]
[ When Will It Stop? ]
[ When Will The Fire Stop Going ( POP, POP, POP? ) ]
[ It Is Amazing How Much Damage Can Be Caused By One
Single Lightning Strike ]
[ It Does Not Do Anything That You Like ]
[ I Have To Say How Much I Am Amazed ]
[ By The Effort & Work Ethic ]
[ Of A Young Man Your Age ]
[ All Of You Guys Are Super Hero’s To All Of Us Plain Folks ]
[ Hiding In Our Homes ]
[ When The Wind Blew In All Of The Smoke ]
[ So Wherever You’d Go ]
[ You Always Chocked ]
[ But You Guys Are Beating That Fire & Turning It Into
Itself ]
[ So It Can’t Burn Anything Else ]
[ You Get In There Like You Are In A Fight ]
[ Beginning @ Your Early Morning Light ]
[ Until Well Into The Night ]
[ Half Ass Effort Is Never Enough ]
[ But Like They Say About The Astronauts ]
[ You ALL Are Made Up Of THE RIGHT STUFF! ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(753)▪︎[ One Bad Day … 9•5•2020 ]
[ Tic Toc, Tic Toc ]
[ Goes The Clock ]
[ In My Mind ]
[ As I’m Taking A Walk ]
[ I Would Much Rather It Be Your Voice ]
[ Ringing In My Ear ]
[ But I Have No Choice ]
[ Since You Are No Longer Near ]
[ As The Weather Gets Colder ]
[ It Doubles The Pain In My Left Shoulder ]
[ After My Surgery ]
[ It Really Makes Me Feel Older ]
[ As I’m Out ]
[ Walking & Thinking About ]
[ All Of The Doubt ]
[ That I Had About The Point Of View ]
[ Of That Doctor Who Never Knew ]
[ How To Break The News ]
[ About What You ]
[ Went Through ]
[ When They Called A Code Blue ]
[ Those Words Were The Kind ]
[ That Gets Stuck ]
[ As A Bad Memory, In My Mind ]
[ Those Were The Hardest Words ]
[ That I Had Ever Heard ]
[ You Were No Longer In Pain As You Moved On ]
[ All That I Know Now ]
[ Is That My Future As We Planned, Is Now Gone ]
[ & There Is No More Arguing About What Is Right Or Wrong ]
[ In My Life ]
[ I Need To Keep The Memories Strong ]
[ No Matter The Chaos Or Strife ]
[ That I May Come Across ]
[ As I’m Dealing With This Loss ]
[ As I Look Back ]
[ I Knew That For A Fact ]
[ That You Were A 1 In A Million Act ]
[ Now When I See You In My Dreams ]
[ It Makes Me Smile & Cry ]
[ Because We Made Such A Great Team ]
[ I Always End Up Screaming ( WHY? ) ]
[ It Seems ]
[ Where Will I Find The Strength This Time? ]
[ Because Your Death Was Such A Crime ]
[ That Is Why I Pour My Soul Into This Rhyme ]
[ Was This Just A Thought, Not Real? ]
[ This Is How I Never Want To Feel ]
[ So As I Come Home From My Walk ]
[ I Know That You Have Always Been My Rock ]
[ & I Find That My Biggest Wish ]
[ Is That I Hope That I Will Not Have To Hear Words Like
This ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(751)▪︎[ When The Light Goes Out … 9•4•2020 ]
[ What Really Happens When The Light Goes Out? ]
[ Is There Doubt ]
[ That Sets In? ]
[ Does The Dark Make The World Start To Spin? ]
[ The Light Went Away So Fast ]
[ You Knew It Would Not Last ]
[ But It Is Now Just A Memory Of Your Past ]
[ You Saw It Coming, But There Was Nothing You Could Do ]
[ Because It Is So Dark ]
[ You Hate Your View ]
[ Of What May Or May Not Be In Front Of You ]
[ Whenever You Hear A Sound ]
[ Do You Look Down? ]
[ Or Do Look Around? ]
[ But Look For What? ]
[ Do You Check The Doors & Windows ]
[ To Make Sure That They Are Shut? ]
[ & Check The Lock ]
[ As You Hear The Tic-Toc ]
[ Of Your Wall Clock ]
[ It Feels Like It Will Be Hours Until The Sun Comes Up Outside ]
[ You Can’t Seem To Able, To Close Your Eyes ]
[ Because They Are Open So Wide ]
[ Hours Later You Are Able To Fall Into A Deep ]
[ Sleep ]
[ Only After You Don’t Hear A Peep ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(747)▪︎[ Chaos Everywhere … 9•3•2020 ]
[ To Some, The World Is Getting Confusing ]
[ For Others That Are Causing The Chaos ]
[ It Seems Amusing ]
[ Chaos Can Be Confusing For Some Standing On
The Side ]
[ Chaos Leaves Some People With Their Eyes Open Wide ]
[ When They Said They Didn’t Mean To ]
[ They Flat Out Lied ]
[ Why Else Do They Show Up When They Had No Part
In The Cause That Was Being Protested? ]
[ They Knew That Whatever They Did ]
[ Would Not Get Them Arrested ]
[ But Then People Scream ( WHERE ARE THE POLICE? ) ]
[ Were They Serious? ]
[ Oh Please ]
[ They Don’t Want Police Here, But You Want Them There ]
[ Please Share ]
[ Why The Police Officers Would Even Care? ]
[ Police Are Being Treated Like Guard Dogs Being Sent &
Silenced In Their Doghouse ]
[ They Are Told To Stay ]
[ Until Someone Sees A Cat Chasing A Mouse ]
[ Those Men & Women Are Only Human Like All Of Us ]
[ They Have Been Put Through So Much Stuff ]
[ When Will They Have To Dodge A Runaway Bus? ]
[ There Seems To Be So Much Unrest ]
[ What Is Going To Be The Next Test? ]
[ How Do You Know What Is Best? ]
[ How Will Society Negate ]
[ All Of This Ongoing Hate? ]
[ How Is This Affecting Everyone In Our State? ]
[ Could We Fence It All In ]
[ & Then Close The Gate ]
[ Whenever Hate Hits The Throttle ]
[ It Should Be Put In A Bottle ]
[ & Thrown In The Landfill ]
[ Where It Could Remain Still ]
[ I Don’t Know About Others ]
[ But I’ve Had My Fill ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(58)▪︎[ My Friend, Rita … 1•15•2021 ]
[ Yes My Friend, People Come & Go ]
[ Some That You Will ]
[ But Probably Most You Won’t Make The Effort
To Get To Know ]
[ But Every Once In A Blue Moon ]
[ You Will Meet Someone Who Dances To The
Same Kind Of Tune ]
[ Maybe You Talk To See What You Both Have in
Common ]
[ Maybe They Like Pasta ]
[ While You Like Top Ramen ]
[ Well It Is Kind Of The Same ]
[ & You Laugh As You Tell Each Other, Your Name ]
[ A Good Friend ]
[ Really Does Stick With You Through Thick
Or Thin ]
[ & They Say Good Job ]
[ No Matter If You Lose Or Win ]
[ They Give You A Strong Shoulder To Lean
On Or Cry ]
[ When Your Eyes Fill Up With Tears ]
[ They Never Ask You For A Reason Why ]
[ Somethings You May Not Agree On & Neither One
Will Budge ]
[ Just Because You Don’t Agree On Something ]
[ Does Not Mean That They Will Judge ]
[ There Are A Few Topics That You Each Stay Away
From ]
[ You Never Want a Heated Argument Over Something
That Is So Dumb ]
[ Your Friend Doesn’t Disown You Because Of Who You
Date ]
[ If They Think That You Are Headed For A Fall ]
[ They Bite Their Lip & Patiently Wait ]
[ Because When You Date A Woman That You Came To
Call ( SATAN IN A DRESS ) ]
[ They Will Try Their Damndest To Get You Out Of Your
Mess ]
[ They Stick With You For Almost 28 Years ]
[ They Help You Conquer Many Fears ]
[ You Give Them All The Support & Love That You
Can ]
[ Even Though Your Friend Is A Woman ]
[ & You Are A Man ]
[ Sometimes Opposites Come Together ]
[ No Matter The Time Of Day ]
[ No Matter The Weather ]
[ Even Physically Moving Far Apart ]
[ Won’t Pull Them Out Of Your Heart ]
[ I Am So Glad I Met Ya ]
[ My Friend Rita ]
[ I Sure Miss You, Down In Arizona ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(77)▪︎[ A Safer Place … 1•22•2021 ]
[ Today I Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything ]
[ Especially Not Knowing What The Day Will Be Bringing ]
[ I Want To Keep My Head On My Big, Soft Pillow ]
[ Closing My Eyes ]
[ & Laying Low ]
[ Falling Back Into A Nice Dream State ]
[ Thinking Good Thoughts ]
[ While Dismissing The Hate ]
[ That I Heard ]
[ This Past Week ]
[ Watching People’s Actions, Then Listening To Their
Words ]
[ Directed @ People With Different Colored Faces ]
[ Of Different Races ]
[ Born In Different Places ]
[ When People Don’t Understand Others, They Tend
To Lash Out ]
[ Out Of Fear ]
[ So The Reasons For Their Hateful Shouts ]
[ Are Not Always Clear ]
[ Oftentimes People Speak ]
[ Before Taking The Time To Think ]
[ Never Taking Into Consideration How Their Words ]
[ Hurts ]
[ Further Driving People Apart ]
[ Leaving People To Wonder How To Close This
Division ]
[ Then Wondering Where, When & How To Start ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(80)▪︎[ Losing Faith … 1•22•2021 ]
[ I Am Losing Faith In The Human Race ]
[ When I Look @ Society ]
[ All I See Is An Angry Face ]
[ Nobody Smiles Or Gives You A Pleasant Greeting ]
[ Because We Wear Masks ]
[ There Is No Chance Meeting ]
[ You Can’t Tell If Someone Is Smiling Or Having
A Bad Day ]
[ I Don’t Ask ]
[ & Nobody Will Say ]
[ We All Keep Our 6 Feet Apart ]
[ We Hide Our Emotions ]
[ While We Protect Our Hearts ]
[ Because Of The Year 2020, We Wonder ( WHAT COULD
BE NEXT? ) ]
[ We No Longer Talk On The Phone ]
[ We Only Send Each Other A Text ]
[ So Devoid Of Emotions Or Feelings In The Words ]
[ When You Are In Person ]
[ You Walk Away Knowing More Than You Heard ]
[ But Society Has Been Quarantined From Each
Other For So So Long ]
[ Always Afraid Someone Could Be Around Someone
That Is Sick ]
[ Then Watching Everything Go Wrong ]
[ People Who Die From The Virus Die Alone In
The Hospital ]
[ Instead Of Looking Into Your Loved Ones Eyes ]
[ They Die Staring @ A Blank Wall ]
[ & I Don’t Want That To Ever Happen To Me ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(82)▪︎[ The Horizon … 1•23•2021 ]
[ As I Look Out @ The Distant Horizon ]
[ I Wonder ( WHAT’S GOING ON? ) ]
[ Are Those People Smiling, Are They Happy? ]
[ Or Are They Frowning & Angry ]
[ How Could I Tell ]
[ If They Were Doing Well? ]
[ I Guess It Would Be Totally Up To My Vivid
Imagination ]
[ Could I See A Picture ]
[ Through My Concentration? ]
[ Sometimes When I Am Attempting To Connect
All Of The Dots ]
[ My Mind Goes Blurry ]
[ Then All I See, Is Fuzzy Spots ]
[ & The Picture That I Thought Was Coming In Crystal
Clear ]
[ Is Longer Here ]
[ Because In The Haze ]
[ It All Disappeared ]
[ ( OH WELL ) I Say ]
[ I Will Look Through My Imagination On Another
Day ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(83)▪︎[ I Couldn’t … 1•23•2021 ]
[ Isolation Is The Word For Today ]
[ Don’t Do What I Do ]
[ Disregard What I Say ]
[ I Felt Locked In The Corner Without Having
A View ]
[ But What I’d Really Like To Do ]
[ Is Turn Around & Become Part Of The Crowd ]
[ I Just Can’t Do It ]
[ Because The Noise Is Too Loud ]
[ I Tell Myself ( YOU CAN DO IT! ) ]
[ But All I Could Do Was Bite My Lip ]
[ I Just Couldn’t Get Up, Because My Legs Froze ]
[ That Was Not My First Choice ]
[ It Was What My Body Chose ]
[ My Brain Wanted My Body To Move ]
[ But I Just Couldn’t Get In The Groove ]
[ So I Settled In With The Isolation ]
[ It Seemed Like The Consolation ]
[ Prize ]
[ For My Mind ]
[ It Was Not What I Wanted To Do, But I Did ]
[ So I Just Went To My Bedroom & Hid ]
[ Hid For The Day, Hid For The Month ]
[ Someone Said That They Wanted To Be Brutally Blunt ]
[ They Said That Besides It Having Such A Negative Hit On
My Wealth ]
[ It Does Not Help In My March Towards Good Health ]
[ Not Because Money Can’t Buy Me Happiness In The
Long Run ]
[ Hiding In My Bedroom Was Not Very Fun ]
[ Feeling That I Got A Raw Deal ]
[ Seeing That I Didn’t Like How Things Would Feel ]
[ I Need To Go Through Life With Vigor ]
[ Because When I Just Sit Around, My Belly Keeps Getting
Bigger & Bigger ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(86)▪︎[ You Know What I Mean? … 1•24•2021 ]
[ Do The Words Blue, Pipe, Yellow, Sixteen & Nine All Have
Four Letters In It? ]
[ Okay, Right? ]
[ When It Is Warm @ Night Does That Mean That The Son Is Out? ]
[ What Color Would Five O’clock Look Like Upside Down? ]
[ If I Asked Ewe A Question Tomorrow Would You Give Me A
Sheepish Answer? ]
[ Why Now? ]
[ I Think The Real Story Revolved Around The Sister Of The Three
Little Pigs ]
[ They Were Never Really Nice To Her By Making Her Live In A
Trailer In The Bad Part Of Town In Albany, New York ]
[ But Wait, Albany, Connecticut Does Not Have A Good Part Of
Town, So She Lived In Her Car ]
[ She Was The Black Sheep Of The Pig Family ]
[ She Actually Loved Pork ]
[ So She Ended Up Drinking Beer With Her Mashed Potatoes ]
[ Can The Word ( FOOTBALL ) Ever Come Down With Athletes
Feet? ]
[ Can The Game Of ( SOCKHER ) Ever Be Brought Up On Domestic
Abuse Charges? ]
[ Can It Be Played Without Shoes? ]
[ Could The Game Of ( BASKETBALL ) Ever Be Played On The
Handlebars Of A Little Girls Bike? ]
[ It Did Not Make Sense That The Year 2020 Turned Out So
Bad ]
[ 2019 Said It Would Have Such Good Vision ]
[ The Truth About The Big Bad Wolf Was That He Always Had
His Half-Brother Doing The Blowing Parts, Because He Had A
Bad Case Of C.O.P.D. ]
[ & Because He Wasn’t Gay ]
[ Kermit The Frog Never Dated Miss Piggy ]
[ He Was A Vegan ]
[ He Would Never Eat Meat ]
[ So She Would Only Hang Out With Big Bird ]
[ Did You Ever See The Size Of His Feet? ]
[ He WAS Anatomically True To Size ]
[ The Lady In The Old Shoe Had Horrendous Breath & Ran A
Sweatshop Out Of The Back Of The Heel ]
[ When The Quarterback Yells ( HIKE ) Where Do They Go? ]
[ Or Maybe It Is Just A Suggestion ]
[ How Come The Number 13 Is The Lucky Number & 7 Is Just
Purple? ]
[ That Is A Weird Word ]
[ Has Four Letters & Ends Just Like It Started, Drinking Tea ]
[ Does It Really Matter If The Balls Are Blue Or Brown? ]
[ It Does If You Are A Man ]
[ Ask Me In Two Days ]
[ Are Burritos Cold? ]
[ Do They Shiver? ]
[ It Sounds Like They Do @ The Start ]
[ Those Are All Good Answers ]
[ But The Answers Are Predominantly ( C ) ]
[ If Someone Is Offended Does That Mean They Liked The Start? ]
[ Or Is That When The ( END ) Fell ( OFF )? ]
[ If Someone Gave You ( $50 ) & Asked You To Give Half
Of It To STAN, Than Asked You To Give Half Of That To
STEPHEN, Than Asked You To Give Half Of That To BILL,
How Much Time Have You Saved By Drinking A Soda
Using Your Left Hand? ]
[ Since Water Is Clear Do You Really Know That It
Is There? ]
[ How Come The Word ( OPEN ) Is Not Irish? ]
[ Can You Count To 100 By Skipping All Of The Vowels? ]
[ Strawberry Lemonade Is Just Another Code Word
If You Want To Order Coffee In A Sit Down Restaurant ]
[ If You Don’t Believe Me, Try It The Next Time You Go To A 7-11 ]
[ If I Had Written ( THE END ) @ The Start Of This Pudding, Would
You Have Looked @ The Bottom For The Middle?
[ Have You Ever Dissected The Word Pillow? ]
[ Yeah, Me Neither ]
[ Why Would I, When You Wouldn’t, After I Said To Go Ahead
Because It’s Free To Hiccup Twice When The Refrigerator Door
Combination Was Changed Two Oranges Ago ]
[ Makes No Cents ]
[ So It Would Never Add Up To A Phone Call ]
[ Okay? ]
[ Good To Know Or Yes ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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