[ Okay, Big M ]
[ I Really Feel Sad About Your Problems ]
[ You Are In A Situation Where You Have No
Control ]
[ & That Is Normally Not How You Roll ]
[ Your Son Is Laying In A Hospital Bed ]
[ & That Image Sticks In Your Head ]
[ You Are Unable To Reach Out & Take All Of
His Pain Away ]
[ But You Stand There ]
[ & Continue To Stay ]
[ You Are Such The Loving & Devoted Man ]
[ & You Try & Try To Do What You Can ]
[ Any Boy Would Beg & Plead For The Love That
You Have & You Show Your Son ]
[ You Are A Realistic Man By Knowing That Life
Can’t Be Filled With Only Giggles & Fun ]
[ When It Comes To Being A Great Dad You
Definitely Fill The Part ]
[ You Show That It Is Not The Money That You Give ]
[ It Takes A Big Heart ]
[ Every Day You Worry ]
[ So Much ]
[ Your Eyesight Goes Blurry ]
[ You Stand By In Case Anybody Needs Help ]
[ If It Was Possible ]
[ You Would Get Five Stars On Yelp ]
[ A Person That Was New ]
[ Would Read All The Way Through ]
[ The 100’s Of Rave Reviews ]
[ Big M, If You Are Even Half The Dad, As You Are My Friend ]
[ The Love That You Have For Your Son ]
[ Will Never Ever End ]
~ The End ~
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 202 ][ Staying 6 Feet Apart … 3•11•2021 ]
[ How Can You Touch My Heart ]
[ When We Have To Stay @ Least 6 Feet Apart? ]
[ I Live & Love Very Much ]
[ For The Sound Of Your Voice & The Feel Of Your Touch ]
[ What I Wouldn’t Do For A Hug From You ]
[ Because It Is Way Overdue ]
[ I Took Your Touch For Granted Every Single Day ]
[ But Now You Have To Stay ]
[ Far, Far Away ]
[ For Your Own Safety ]
[ & That Matters To Me ]
[ Because I Was Never Able To Give You Wealth ]
[ I Can Help You Protect Your Health ]
[ Ever Since A Year Before Last February ]
[ I Have Missed You Dearly ]
[ When Will This End? ]
~ The End ~
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 199 ][ The Biggest Mystery In Town … 3•10•2021 ]
[ Little Red Ridinghood ]
[ Was Walking Around The Neighborhood ]
[ Up To No Good ]
[ She Saw Scooby-Doo Sitting On A Log ]
[ & She Asked ( WHAT’s UP OLD DOG? ) ]
[ ( WHY ARE JUST SITTING THERE ACTING LIKE YOUR
HEAD IS IN A FOG? ) ]
[ After She Asked Twice ]
[ She Stopped Being Nice ]
[ Then Left Him All Alone ]
[ After Stealing His Cell Phone ]
[ Right Then A Call Came In ]
[ If She Was To Answer It ]
[ She Had No Idea How The Conversation Would Begin ]
[ Days Go By & The Phone Keeps Ringing Off Of The Hook ]
[ Apparently Scooby-Doo Went Missing ]
[ & Nobody Could Figure Out Where In The World They
Should Look ]
[ Little Red Started Losing Sleep ]
[ Because She Felt That She Had A Big Secret She Had
To Keep ]
[ What If She Was The Last One To See Scooby-Doo Alive? ]
[ When She Stole His Phone About Four Days Ago ]
[ Or Was It Five ]
[ Little Red Went With Her Younger Niece ]
[ When She Decided To Go Talk To The Police ]
[ She Made Up A Good Story, All The While Lying ]
[ She Even Drew Sympathy ]
[ As She Was Fake Crying ]
[ Little Red Made Up Every Little Bit ]
[ When She Was Making Up The Story About How She
Found It ]
[ When They Left The Station She Was A Little Bit
Relieved ]
[ Because She THOUGHT She Had Told Them A Story
That They Believed ]
[ But Two Days Later After She Called For A Lyft Ride ]
[ & Then Went Outside ]
[ There Was A Big Sign In Her Front Yard That Said
( WE ALL KNOW THAT YOU LIED! ) ]
[ Now She Felt Scared ]
[ About Who Put That Sign Out There ]
[ & Who Was ( THE WE? ) ]
[ She Had No Idea Who That Could Be ]
[ This Really Troubled Her ]
[ & Made Her Feel Unsafe ]
[ & Unsure ]
[ Because She Has Lied ]
[ So Much ]
[ She Had A Hunch ]
[ That She Needed To Find ]
[ Some Place To Hide ]
[ Instead Of Going Out To Lunch ]
[ She Went Back Inside Her House ]
[ Packed 3 Bags Full Of Clothes ]
[ & Left A Goodbye Note To Bugs Bunny, Her Spouse ]
[ It Told Him ( PLEASE DON’t COME LOOKING FOR ME … ) ]
[ ( BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE I WILL BE ) ]
[ When Little Red Walked Out The Front Door ]
[ & Caught A Lift Ride ]
[ Nobody Ever Saw Little Red Around The Neighborhood
Anymore ]
[ The Scooby-Doo & Little Red Mystery ]
[ Will Always Go Down In History ]
[ As One Having To Do With The Other ]
[ Scooby’s Three Boys Miss Their Father ]
[ & Little Red’s Two Daughters ]
[ Miss Their Mother ]
~ The End ~
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 194 ][ A Raft For One … 3•6•2021 ]
[ Here I Sit In A Raft Made For One ]
[ I Tried To Ask Someone To Go With Me ]
[ But They Said That Did Not Look Like It Would Be
All That Much Fun ]
[ I Tried To Entice ]
[ & Ask Really Nice ]
[ But I Had No Takers ]
[ Because Every Single Friend Turned Out To Be
Big Fakers ]
[ Faked Their Friendship & Faked Their Love ]
[ They Faked Everything That They Spoke Of ]
[ Was Their Name ]
[ Even The Same? ]
[ People Even Lie ]
[ With Their Eyes ]
[ Girls ]
[ & Guys ]
[ Does Not Matter The Gender ]
[ Some People Are Just Not Tender ]
[ Deep Deep Down ]
[ Some People Are As Honest As A Clown ]
[ Having A Painted On Smile ]
[ That Only Lasts For Awhile]
[ I Wish I Could Foresee The Ones Coming ]
[ That Are So Numbing ]
[ That Would Save Me So Much Time & Energy ]
[ If They Would Let Me Know That They Had No Integrity ]
[ So I Guess It Is A Plus That They Are Not In My Raft
While I Am Drifting ]
[ Because I Would Practice Some Lifting ]
[ As I Throw Them Over The Side ]
[ Because That Was Just A Matter Of Pride ]
[ That I No Longer Wanted Them In My Ride ]
~ The End ~
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 192 ][ Money Just Can’t … 3•5•2021 ]
[ A ][° 192 °][ MONEY CAN’t … 3•5•2021 ]
[ Some People Actually Think That Money Can Buy
Them Love ]
[ Especially If Romance Is Not The Number One Thing
That They’re Thinking Of ]
[ In Those Situations, Everything Will End ]
[ When There Is No More Money To Spend ]
[ As Long As They Have A Dollar ]
[ They Think That Everyone Is Supposed To Listen
To Them Holler ]
[ Every Single Day ]
[ They Think That They Have Something Important
To Say ]
[ When Some Of These People Yell ]
[ They Just Don’t Get The Point That They Are Trying
To Make, Across Very Well ]
[ Who Would Want To Love Someone When Every Word ]
[ They Said ]
[ Was Never Heard? ]
[ Because The Words ( WAA WAA WAA ) ]
[ Comes Across As Well As ( BLAH BLAH BLAH ) ]
[ Does ]
[ Because ]
[ Money Can’t Ever Buy Someone Friends Or Love ]
~ The End ~
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 210 ][ Happy Anniversary … 3•14•2021 ]
[ March 16, 2021, Will Be Anniversary Number 25 ]
[ That Will Mean That I Have Been Married To You
For Almost Half Of The Years That I Have Been Alive ]
[ Here Is A Good Laugh ]
[ I Have Been Married To You In Years More Than Half ]
[ That Is A Whole Lot Of Years ]
[ We Have Worked Through Many Days & Nights Of
Tears ]
[ Alot Of People That We Thought We Knew ]
[ Did Not Want To Stick Around To Watch Me & You ]
[ Grow As We Aged ]
[ Never Wanted To Watch Us Turn Another Page ]
[ In The Book That We Have Been Writing ]
[ They Would Be Here One Day ]
[ Then There Was Never Another Sighting ]
[ But That Is Quite Okay ]
[ I Say ]
[ Being A Loyal Friend ]
[ Was Not How They Liked To Play ]
[ But That Was Not Your Plan ]
[ Once You Figured Out That I Was Your Man ]
[ Than We Told Your Father & Mother ]
[ When Asked ]
[ I Would Say That I Never Again Wanted To Date Any Other ]
[ We Faced Many Fears … Together ]
[ & Each Time We Came Out Way Better ]
[ Because Some Of Our Burdens ]
[ Were A Whole Lot Heavier Than A Single Feather ]
[ Some People @ The Beginning Never Gave Me A Chance ]
[ But They Never Saw How I Can Dance ]
[ & You Know That Is What I Can Do ]
[ After Dancing With Me A Time Or Two ]
[ Maybe Some Thought That I Was Not Very Capable ]
[ Because Before All Of This ]
[ I Had Never Pulled Up A Chair @ Their Big, Long Table ]
[ Sometimes We Had Tall Mountains To Climb ]
[ But We Succeded, Time After Time ]
[ Then, Because Of That Glorious Day In April Of 2017 ]
[ I Figured Out That I Could Wriite You A Funny Story
That Rhymed ]
[ But Also Know What They Mean ]
[ My Whole Thought Process Changed It Seemed ]
[ All Of A Sudden I Was Having Rhymes In My Head ]
[ That Screamed ]
[ ( LET ME OUT! ) ]
[ Then That Left Me No Doubt ]
[ That These Are The Things I Needed To Write About ]
[ We Have Gone Through A Lot Of Battles ]
[ But We Continue To Fight The War ]
[ There Has Yet To Be Something That Has Rattled ]
[ Either One Of Us, To The Core ]
[ We Have 25 More Years, Until We Get There ]
[ We Have So Many More Good Times To Share ]
[ So … Do We Dare? ]
[ Try? ]
[ ( YES! ) Says I ]
[ I Love You More Every Day Since I First Said Those Words ]
[ Then When You Said ( I DO! ) ]
[ That Was The Best Answer To A Question That I Had Ever
Heard ]
[ I Could Learn How To Say ( I LOVE YOU ) In Ten Or
20 Different Languages ]
[ But All Through The 25 Years ]
[ The Meaning Never Changes ]
[ Sado Omnida ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 254 ][ All Hands. … 3•28•2021 ]
A ][° 254 °][ ALL HANDS … 3•28•2021 ]
[ There Should Be A Call For All Hands On Deck ]
[ & Help To Keep Each Other In Check ]
[ Strangers Are Pulling Guns On Each Other ]
[ Maybe Some Guys Are Avenging The Death Of Their
Brother ]
[ When All Is Said & Done ]
[ There Are Parents All Over The State ]
[ Making Funeral Arrangements For Their Sons ]
[ One Problem With Bullets Is That They Can’t Control Their
Direction ]
[ Once The Trigger Is Pulled ]
[ There Cannot Be Any Corrections ]
[ They Go Where They Must ]
[ There Is No Deceiving Or A Lack Of Trust ]
[ They Go Where They Go ]
[ Where They Come To Stop ]
[ You Just Don’t Know ]
[ Will It Be A Head, Leg Or Arm ]
[ That Will Be Harmed? ]
[ Or Will It Be A Wall ]
[ That Takes It All? ]
[ The One Thing About Bullets Is That They Work ]
[ There Are No Behavior Problems Or Weird Quirks ]
[ With All Of These Shootings ]
[ Will Everybody Forget About All Of The Vandalism &
Looting? ]
[ It Seems Like A Shooting Here & A Murder There ]
[ Would Anybody Care ]
[ But Most Of The Time, That Is Not The Case ]
[ That Also Means ]
[ That Nobody Is Safe ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 259 ][ A Day In The Life … 3•29•2021 ]
[ Sometimes I Get So Tired I Feel Like I Can See My
Own Thoughts ]
[ They Are In The Form Of Red & Yellow Spots ]
[ They Don’t Come Out In A Straight Line ]
[ @ Least Not Mine ]
[ Sometimes I Can Pick Out The Spots Of Others ]
[ Sad To Say ]
[ I Saw Some Really Dark Ones, That Were My Biological
Mothers ]
[ The Mother That Signed Off ]
[ Then Ran Off ]
[ I Began Seeing My Thoughts @ A Very Young Age ]
[ Trying To Find An Outlet For My Rage ]
[ I Had To Learn To Self Soothe ]
[ When Things Were Not Going So Smooth ]
[ Some Days She Would Yell That I Was Cheating ]
[ Because I Always Tried Hide ]
[ When She Would Yell ( IT IS TIME FOR YOUR BEATING! ) ]
[ I Was So So Small ]
[ & I Was So Malnourished I Was Almost Bald ]
[ I Had Good Hiding Spots All Over The House ]
[ This All Started After My Dad Left ]
[ Her Spouse ]
[ Life Is Not Fair When I Am Forced To Sit There & Watch
My Brother & Sister Eat ]
[ She Won’t Give Me My Shoes Back ]
[ So During Those Days When She Let’s Me Play Outside The
Gravel Hurts My Feet ]
[ How Has My Stomach Found A Way ]
[ To Be Bulging Out ]
[ When I Have Had So Little Food In The Last 8 Days? ]
[ My Sister Treats Me Good ]
[ When She Takes A Huge Risk ]
[ & Smuggles Me Food ]
[ But I Am Very Sure ]
[ That My Mother Would Never Beat Her ]
[ She Has A Specific Certain Wire Hangar ]
[ That She HITS Me With ]
[ When She Takes Out Her Anger ]
[ Days End So Bad ]
[ After She Has Spent Hours On The Phone ]
[ Yelling @ My Dad ]
[ I Always Hated Those Calls ]
[ Because Then She Would Throw My Toys Against
The Walls ]
[ I Only Had A Few That Were Not Broken ]
[ Or Taken ]
[ My Hunger Would Always Make Me Cry & Scream ]
[ When It Would Wake Her ]
[ From Her Drunken Stuper ]
[ She Can Be So Mean ]
[ Whenever My Stomach Uncontrollably Growls ]
[ She Gives Me The Hardest Scowl ]
[ Why Don’t I Ever Get Warm, Dry Clothes Like They
Get? ]
[ The Clothes She Puts On Me Are Always Dirty & Wet ]
[ Yesterday All I Had To Eat Was Mashed Up Bananas
In A Dirty Bowl ]
[ The Hunger Is Taking It’s Toll ]
[ I Wish The Babysitter Would Just Take Us ]
[ But I Don’t Think She Could Carry Three Kids When She
Catches Her Bus ]
[ If Any Of Us Would Go ]
[ It Would Be My Brother ]
[ If She Would Ever Be Asked She Would Not Say ( NO ) ]
[ One Night When She Got Off Of The Phone She
Seemed Quiet & Relieved ]
[ But I Also Heard Her Say ( MAYBE I SHOULD JUST PACK-UP
& LEAVE ) ]
[ The Next Day I Found It Odd Because She Was Humming ]
[ She Also Said ( YOUR PIECE OF CRAP DAD IS COMING ) ]
[ She Yelled @ Me When We Were In The Car Saying
( IN TWO HOURS YOU WILL BE GONE ) ]
[ & ( THEN I CAN FINALLY MOVE ON! ) ]
[ But When We Went ]
[ There Was No Brent ]
[ So She Was True To Her Word ]
[ From That Point ]
[ Her Voice Was Never Ever Heard ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 256 ][ Yes!… 3•29•2021 ]
[ Today I Went To The Glass Barber Grocery Store ]
[ Not Because I Wanted To See ]
[ Or Wanted A Haircut, Or Hungry Or Bored ]
[ I Looked Up @ The Bicycle Clock ]
[ So I Could Watch The Tires Yell Out The Time ]
[ As I Layed Down & Talked ]
[ As I Slept In The Aisle ]
[ For Over Two Miles ]
[ I Could Not Understand Why The Number Yellow
Started With The Letter ( P )? ]
[ How Could That Cost Me A $ ]
[ When It Should Had Paid Me A Fee ]
[ Nothing Makes Cents? ]
[ Except Six Pence ]
[ When I Got To The Chicken In The Aisle I Went To The
Door To Let Her Out ]
[ She Was Crying & Had The Saddest Pout ]
[ So Then I Went Back To Surfing On My Tricycle Up & Down
The Bowling Courts ]
[ I Never Imagined ]
[ That I Could Ever Be This Good @ Wearing Tight, Bikini Shorts ]
[ Knew When I Woke Up Last Yesterday That I Shaved My
Legs For A Reason ]
[ Afterall ]
[ Every Day Is The Start Of Bikini Season ]
[ I Just Do What I Do ]
[ & When I Put Soda In My Mouth ]
[ I Chew ]
[ But My Grocery Shoplifting Was Not Done ]
[ Whenever I Wear Thermal Socks With My Stilleto Heels ]
[ I Can’t Run ]
[ But Trying, Sure Feels … ]
[ … Fun ]
[ Off To The Service Shop To Fill Up My Shopping Bags With
Premium Gas ]
[ It Is Always Free ]
[ When I Press My Bare Ass ]
[ Up Against The Glass ]
[ & There Is Alot Of Money I Save ]
[ When I Behave ]
[ While I Am Being Shaved ]
[ My Head Comes Out Bald & Feeling Nice ]
[ I Liked How He Shaved Me The First Time ]
[ So I Walked By There Twice ]
[ This Story Keeps Going Up & Down ]
[ Around & Around ]
[ It Is Meant To Make You Smile ]
[ Not Frown ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 273 ][ Different People … 4•1•2021 ]
[ There Are Many Types Of People In The World ]
[ The Ones That Go To The Circus To Laugh @ The Clowns ]
[ & There Are The Ones That Grab The Batton & Give
It A Twirl ]
[ When The World Gets So Heavy On My Shoulders
I Have Trouble Standing ]
[ & When I’m Alone ]
[ Things Become So Demanding ]
[ Then You Will Find That There Are Two Different Groups
Walking Freely ]
[ Out In Society ]
[ There Are The One’s That Look Before They Leap ]
[ & There Are Those That Always Finds A Way To Cheat ]
[ There Are Secrets That You Gave Your Word That You
Would Always Keep ]
[ Just To Yourself ]
[ A Pinky Deal Was Made That You Would Not Tell Anyone
Else ]
[ An Oath That You Would Take The Secret To The
Grave ]
[ You Give Your Word That Even Through Being Tortured
You Would Remain Brave ]
[ There Is Always An Opposite Side Of Itself ]
[ One Goes On The Floor ]
[ While The Other Side Remains On The Shelf ]
[ Good Or Bad ]
[ Happy Or Sad ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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