[ The Hectic Day Turned Into A Dark, Quiet Night ]
[ & The Wind Was Moving Oh So Slight ]
[ Licking Around The Windowsill ]
[ You Seem So Restless ]
[ You Are Having Problems Laying Still ]
[ To The Left, Than To The Right ]
[ You Keep Rolling Back & Forth In Your Sleepless
Fight ]
[ Then You See The Lightning ]
[ Flash Across The Moonless Sky ]
[ You Decide To Stop The Fighting ]
[ You Start Your Sleepless Night Routine ]
[ You Have Been Doing Laps Around The House Since Your
Early Teens ]
[ You Remember The Mornings When You Felt
Really Ill ]
[ Those Were The Times When You Mixed Your Favorite
Tequilla & Sleeping Pills ]
[ About 15 Years Ago Your Mind Was Very Hazy ]
[ & Your Thoughts Were Mostly Dark ]
[ Then You Stopped Being Depressed & Lazy ]
[ & Just Settled On Being Depressed ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(193)▪︎[ Why The Need To Fake? … 3•6•2021 ]
[ People Do Not Fake Depression, They Fake That
They Are Okay ]
[ You Need To See For Yourself ]
[ Instead Of Only Listening To What They Say ]
[ Nobody Wants To Hear Bad News ]
[ After They Ask All Of Their Fake ( HOW ARE YOU’s? ) ]
[ People Tend To Walk Away After They Have Heard ]
[ A Negative Word ]
[ Most Of The Time They Gloss Over What They Hear ]
[ Then You Want To Ask ( DO YOU EVER PAY ATTENTION
TO WHAT I SAY WHEN YOU ARE HERE? ) ]
[ It Is Much Easier To Disregard A Text ]
[ They Just Read The One That Is Coming Next ]
[ Then They Can Hit ( DELETE ) ]
[ That Is An Easier Way To Get Rid Of You Than When
You Are Standing Their Feet To Feet ]
[ Why Must People Fake Their Emotions Day In & Day Out ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(189)▪︎[ It Will Be The Main Reason … 3•3•2021 ]
[ Sometimes Words Flow Back & Forth ]
[ In My Mind ]
[ Some Go South & Others Go North ]
[ Are The Ones That Go South ]
[ The Ones That Should Not Come Out Of My Mouth? ]
[ The Words That Are Not Said ]
[ Should Lay Dead ]
[ In My Head ]
[ Why Can’t I Say What Is On My Mind? ]
[ When I Am In A Situation That Is So Unkind? ]
[ It Seems That Others Do ]
[ Why Can’t I, Too? ]
[ Give Me A Reason Or An Explanation ]
[ The More Time That Goes By ]
[ Causes Me Alot Of Frustration ]
[ How Can I Remain Real? ]
[ When I Cannot Say What I Feel? ]
[ That Would Be The Time When I Would Look All Around ]
[ & Then Shut Down ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(186)▪︎[ You Are A Work In Progress … 3•2•2021 ]
[ What If You Were Told That The First Place To
Begin ]
[ When Working On Yourself ]
[ Is From Within? ]
[ Take Out All Of The Outside Distractions ]
[ & Then Split Your Problems Into Fractions ]
[ Maybe Take On A ¼ @ A Time ]
[ Then Work Your Way Down The Line ]
[ Knock One Off Then Take On Another ]
[ Throw That One To The Side ]
[ & Then You Are ½ Way Through The Others ]
[ Where Is The Finish Line To Cross? ]
[ Maybe That Would Be A Lost ]
[ Cause ]
[ Because The Finish Line Does Not Exist ]
[ So Cross That Off The Top Of Your Bucket List ]
[ Working On Yourself Is Something That Is In Perpetual
Motion ]
[ Problems Keep Coming In ]
[ Like The Waves Of The Ocean ]
[ Some Break Right ]
[ & Some Do Not Break @ All ]
[ It Is Always A Fight ]
[ When You Try To Go Through A Wall ]
[ It Is Best To Keep Your Feet On Solid Ground ]
[ Never Try To Go Up & Over ]
[ When You Could Just Go Around ]
[ What Is Always A Must, Should Be Done First ]
[ Always Stay Hydrated ]
[ & Take Care Of Your Thirst ]
[ & Find Ways ]
[ To Eat Throughout Your Days ]
[ Don’t Starve @ Night ]
[ By Not Having Anything To Eat ]
[ When There Is Moon Light ]
[ Keep Chugging Along ]
[ & Know That It Is An Impossible Task ]
[ To Right Everything That You Think & See Is Wrong ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(212)▪︎[ The Two Paths … 4•6•2021 ]
[ If There Were Two Paths To Take & The One To The
Left Made More Cents & The One To The Right Cost
You A Dollar Which One Would You Talk To. If There Was
Such A Thing As ( THE CALL OF THE WILD ) & There Was
Nobody There, Would It Go Straight To Voice-Mail
Or Would There Be A Busy Signal Because It Was A Monday
& They Never Made A Pre-Arranged, Triple Duplicate, Yellow
Meeting Invitations. If There Was A Meeting In The Wild Would It Need To Be Near A Path So People Could Swim Up To The
Bar Like They Do In The City? How Come People In The City,
Do Not Have More Pity, For The Itty Bitty 3 Nipple Kitty, That
Has To Live Through The Nitty Gritty, Having To Endure Hours & Hours Of ( THE VERY BEST of CONWAY TWITTY ), With A Fatty,
Bald Man Whose Disposition Is So Shitty, It Has The Kitty Taking
Trips Around Town, Walking On The Ground Up & Down The Hills.
Would A Tricycle Be The Easiest One To Ride Because It Starts
With The Word ( TRI )? If Yellow Was A Number How Tall Would
The Vowell Be?I Say ( YES ) Two That Equation. If You Had A
( QUESTION ) & The Word ( EQUATION ) In Front Of You,
Which One Makes You Think The Hardest? I Say Neither Because
They Are Just Words. Whenever You Get To 3 Syllable
Words Just Take Out The ( V ) & Then Go Home. If you Ever
Had A ( KNOME ) Or A ( CLONE ) In Your Home. Which One
Would Moan That They Owned The Rust Covered Scone By
Being In The Zone, Using The Itchy Tone, That Was All Groan?
Good Answer If You Circled ( C ) On The Number Chart. Is It
An Art To Be Able To Take Apart Your Fart Standing On
Top Of The Escalating ( REMEMBER TO SOUND OUT THE
2 SYLLABLE WORDS ) CART? Or Is That Just A Start For
Bart When He Shoots @ Darts? Good Answer To That
Phone Call. Have A Good Night.
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1040 ][ Before The Day Is Done … 12•10•2020 ]
[ Every Day, You Have The Choice Of Whether To
Laugh Or Cry @ Night ]
[ The Choice Makes All Of The Difference ]
[ When It Comes To Facing The Morning Light ]
[ One May Make You Tired & One Could Put Your
Mind @ Rest ]
[ Depending On The Circumstances ]
[ Sometimes It Would Be Hard To Figure Out Which
Emotion Would Be The Best ]
[ Sometimes Circumstances In Your Life Are Completely
Out Of Your Control ]
[ & There Are Incidents That Occur That Can
Hurt You ]
[ Like It Puts A Hole ]
[ In Your Soul ]
[ Those Are The Ones That You Do Not Want To
Remember ]
[ But Sometimes An Incident That Happens In Early
January ]
[ Can Still Be Fresh In Your Mind Through The 31st
Of The Next December ]
[ @ Times Your Heart May Forgive But Your Mind
Will Not Let ]
[ Your Memory To Ever Forget ]
[ Those Are The Times ]
[ When You Wonder What That Saying That Combines
The Two Ever Meant ]
[ When Your Soul Hurts ]
[ Your Mind Will Search ]
[ For Something To Help You Heal ]
[ Anything That Even Remotely Seems Real ]
[ Then, Something Good To Make You Feel ]
[ Whole Again ]
[ But You Can Never Control When ]
[ That Will Ever Begin ]
[ When You Feel Knocked Down ]
[ Don’t Have A Meltdown ]
[ While On The Ground ]
[ Up Is The Only Direction To Go ]
[ Even If You Have To Take It Slow ]
[ Just Know ]
[ That You Must Always Get Back Up ]
[ Don’t Breakup ]
[ Burnup ]
[ Or Give Up ]
[ No, Stand Up ]
[ After You Fall ]
[ Then Give It Your All ]
[ Before You Make The Call ]
[ To Call It A Day ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1034 ][ What Is The New Normal? … 12•8•2020 ]
[ Can We Ever Get Back To The Life That
We All Used To Remember? ]
[ The ‘VID Quarantined Us In March ]
[ Now Look, It Is The 2nd Week Into December ]
[ Something, Anything Close To Being Back To Normal ]
[ Nothing Too Fancy ]
[ But Something Less Formal ]
[ We Have Been Relegated To Get-Togethers Through
Pre-Determined Zoom Calls ]
[ While Getting Seriously Bored ]
[ Staring @ The Same 4 Walls ]
[ Seeing The Same People Day After Day ]
[ We Do & Still Love Each Other ]
[ & We Still Hear What Each Other Wants To Say ]
[ But Oh Brother ]
[ Have We’ve Been Getting In Each Other’s Way ]
[ There Are No New People To Meet ]
[ There Are No New Places To Eat ]
[ It Is Always The Same Kind Of Food ]
[ & We Can’t Leave When Someone Gets In A Mood ]
[ That Ends Up Changing ]
[ Their Behavior & Attitude ]
[ Even When We Do Go Out In Public, We Have To Plan
To Keep The Destinations Quick From ( A ) To ( B ) ]
[ No More Spontaneous Trips To ( D ) Or ( C ) ]
[ It Sucks To Have To Put A Cork In The Spontaneity ]
[ Bottle ]
[ & Ease Off The Throttle ]
[ Then Shift Out Of Drive ]
[ Into Neutral ]
[ So We All Can Stay Alive ]
[ By Not Going Out & Getting The ‘Vid ]
[ So Someone Won’t To Tell The Neighbors ]
[ ( HEY, DID YOU HEAR WHAT SID ) ]
[ ( DID? ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1030 ][ It Is A Belly Button Itch … 12•6•2020 ]
So Just Now I Woke Up Dark. What Made Me Sneeze Was The Smell Of The Alarm Clock Barking. That Woke Nicole Up Because She Stopped Running, Looked @ Her Ankle Wondering Why It Sounded Like Half A Banana Peel. So I Laid Sideways, Rolled Uphill When The Clock On The Floor Meyowed. I Threw Water On The Couch, Then I Opened Up The Refrigerator. I Was Sweating Numb When I Smelled The Cola-BunnyBeer. Than I Saw One Pair Of Van’s, Two Pairs Of Socks, One Bright Steak Undershirt ( SIZE SMALL ) Just Standing There On The Bottom Button Singing X-Rays. I Thought ( OH THAT IS WHERE THEY LANDED AFTER TAKING AN ÜBER HOME FROM SINGING @ THE CLOTHING LAB ) Sew I Shook Salt On My Right Foot. Grabbed A Frying Pan From The 3rd Drawer Down In The Toy Box That Was Submerged On The Roof. Not The 2nd Closet That Was In The Bathtub Boiling Eggs. I Like My Eggs Boiled Until The Ice Falls Off Into The Bedroom Faucet. But The Eggs Must Be Milked Until The Number ‘J’ Says It Is … So One More Word About Hair. Good Boy. My Meds Must Be Shined ‘6’ Two Swimming Pools To The Up. Up Is Kind Of … Yes. If New Knew, It Wasn’t New, Would The Un-New Who Knew, Would That Be Old News, To The Sevens That Knew? Would Yellow Actually Be The Only One That No’s? If Somebody Raised Their Grapes Are They Trying To Grow Hair? Just A Couple Of Things That Make Your Belly Button Itch.
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1023 ][ Set Adrift … 12•6•2021 ]
[ Lost, Floating On The Sea Of Loneliness ]
[ Could I Ever Feel Less ]
[ Of This Emptiness ]
[ How Did I Get Here? ]
[ My Path Back To Fullfillness Has Never Been
All That Clear ]
[ When I Came To A Fork In The Road I Thought
I Turned In The Right Direction ]
[ Using Hindsight ]
[ I Would Make A Correction ]
[ I Thought Going Left Was Good ]
[ Maybe My Brain Misunderstood ]
[ The Bright, Yellow Yield Signs ]
[ Plus, When I Looked @ The Left Side ]
[ There Were No Lines ]
[ Maybe It Was That Way For A Reason ]
[ When I Looked To The Right ]
[ I Did Not Think That I Could Squeeze In ]
[ But Now I Float ]
[ On The Sea ]
[ Without A Single Paddle In My Boat ]
[ I Am @ The Mercy Of The Wind & The Current ]
[ This Problem Seems To Be Recurrent ]
[ Same Problem, But From A Different Issue ]
[ My Inner Strength Is As Strong As A Soft Kleenex
Tissue ]
[ Flimsy & Easy To Rip To Shreads ]
[ Confusing, Like The Brain On Too Many Meds ]
[ Will I Be Forever Damned? ]
[ & Never Get Back To Dry Land? ]
[ Do I Lean Down ]
[ & Paddle With My Hand? ]
[ After Awhile ]
[ I Found That It Was Futile ]
[ Do I Hear The Sound Of A Storm Coming In? ]
[ When I Sense The Rain Begin ]
[ I Tell Myself ( I JUST CAN’t WIN! ) ]
[ Maybe This Will Be The Way My Life Will Go ]
[ Maybe Not ]
[ Probably So ]
[ Is All Of This Effort For Naught? ]
[ I Really Don’t Know ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1021 ][ They Are All Wrong … 12•4•2020 ]
[ Are You Looking For Friends In All The Wrong
Places ]
[ While Looking For Love In All The Wrong Faces ]
[ Not Being Very Wise ]
[ & Over Looking The Blank Look In Their Eyes ]
[ Then Listening ]
[ & Believing Their Lies ]
[ Lies, Lies, Lies Is All They Tell ]
[ They Have Been Doing This For So Long ]
[ They Do It Really Well ]
[ Because It Is So Wrong ]
[ The Lies That You Hear Have Their Own Distinctive
Smell ]
[ Soon Seeing, That After You First Met ]
[ They Had Their Hand In Your Back Pocket ]
[ Dead Set ]
[ On Trying To Grab Your Wallet ]
[ Leaving You Looking High & Low ]
[ For Some Kind Of Show ]
[ Of Reciprocation On Their Part ]
[ Of Wanting To Share Their Heart ]
[ The Cold Look In Their Eyes Speaks Volumes
Without Making A Sound ]
[ Whenever You Attempt To Make Eye Contact ]
[ They Are Looking @ The Ground ]
[ & You Will Find It Is A Fact ]
[ When They Don’t Come Around ]
[ Being The Type Of Girl Or Guy ]
[ Trying To Get By ]
[ In Life ]
[ By Never Looking @ You Eye To Eye ]
[ So In The End ]
[ It Should not Take A Blow To Your Head ]
[ To Figure Out Or See ]
[ That Deep Down Inside Of Them, Their Soul Is Dead ]
[ It Is Like They Want To Say ]
[ That They Do Not Have Love For You In Their Heart ]
[ In The Most Basic Way ]
[ & That Is Their Way Of Saying ]
[ That They Do Not Want To Be Staying ]
[ Unless You Are Monetarily Paying ]
[ & You Will Quickly Realize ]
[ That Kind Of Game Is Not Worth Playing ]
[ Will You Ever Notice That They Constantly Come
To You Looking For A Handout? ]
[ & When You Leave Them Empty Handed ]
[ They Will Stand There & Pout? ]
[ If You Continue To Hear Them Lie ]
[ That Should Be Your Cue ]
[ To Say Your Goodbye ]
[ Because, They Will Continue To Try To Use You ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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