(134)▪︎[ Don’t Judge … 2023 ]

[ Don’t Shun Me Because Of What You See ]
[ Hug Me When You Get To Know Me ]

[ When You Automatically Judge ]
[ & ]
[ You Won’t Budge ]

[ From Your First Impression ]
[ So, I Have A Confession ]

[ Don’t First Believe ]
[ So ]
[ What You Can Deceive? ]

[ First Judgement Is Not Always The Best ]
[ People First Loved The East ]
[ But Some Eventually Moved To The West? ]

[ Some Very Good People’s First Impressions Were Bad ]
[ If I Would Have Flown With That ]
[ Today I Would Be So Mad ]

[ Some Of My Favorite People Had Bad One’s ]
[ I Could Have Stuck By My Guns ]
[ & Continued To Think That They’re Not Very Fun ]

[ It Could Be Just Like That ]
[ It Is A Fact ]
[ Sometimes With Friends, Opposites Do Attract ]

[ Attract As Lover’s Or As A Friend ]
[ Once They Are, They Won’t Bend ]
[ Then They Stay With You To The Very End ]

[ & Beyond ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(642)▪︎[ Bending Around The Corner … 2023 ]

[ There Are Times When I Want To Take My Mind ]
[ & Go Inside ]
[ To Run & Hide ]

[ I Hide From The Outside World ]
[ I Hide From The Other Boys & Girls ]
[ When I Close My Eyes ]
[ I Only See Circles & Swirls ]

[ Swirls Where There Is No Beginning Or End ]
[ Lines That Keep Moving ]
[ None Of Them Straight ]
[ They All Just Bend ]
[ All Kinds Of Colors That Blend ]

[ Together Into One Big Mixture ]
[ Can I Grab Ahold Of One Stable Fixture? ]
[ I’m Not Sure ]

[ How Do I Keep My Feet, Planted Firmly On The Ground? ]
[ If I Get Lost ]
[ Will I Be Found? ]

[ & Return Things To Normalcy? ]
[ Is Normal A Fallacy? ]

[ What Exactly Is Meant By Normal? ]
[ Is That The Time When Sanity Is Formal? ]

[ It Gets All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go? ]
[ Are Things Going Fast ]
[ Or Can I Get It To Go Slow? ]

[ What Is False & What Is True? ]
[ Am I Only Judged By The Things That I Do? ]
[ Why Not Judge Me By The Things That I Say No To? ]

[ Like There Are Things That I Won’t ]
[ Let Happen ]
[ & Times Where I Don’t ]
[ Let Things Dampen ]

[ The Other Persons Mood ]
[ With A Bad Attitude ]
[ Because That Would Be Rude ]

[ Please Take Away The Things That Are Bad ]
[ Please Hide The Things That Make Me Sad ]

[ Add More Things That Make Me Smile ]
[ Let Me Sit & Think Of Those Things For Awhile ]
[ No, Do Not Reach For That Dial ]

[ Not Just Yet ]
[ Things Are So Much Better When The Goals Have Been Met ]
[ Life Is Such An Up & Down Event ]
[ There Are Times When I Wonder Where The Years, Went ]
[ Do I Ask? ]
[ Was It Time Well Spent? ]

[ There Are Some Days I’m Down & Some Days Where I’m Up ]
[ Just Like Some Days I Have Alot To To Say ]
[ But Other Days I Just Want To Keep My Mouth Shut ]

[ There Are Days When I Catch Myself Sitting Back Watching Life Go By ]
[ I Tell You No Lie ]
[ There Are So Many Things Happening Where I Wonder (WHY?) ]

[ Why Did I Do This Or Why Did I Do That? ]
[ Do I Have Nine Lives, Like A Cat? ]

[ How Do I Stay On Task? ]
[ How Do I Make This Thought Last? ]

[ Thoughts Float In & Out Like Clouds Floating Through ]
[ Do You Ever Think Of Some Things Like This Too? ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(538)▪︎[ Polarizing Events … 2023 ]

[ Disrespect ]
[ Is That What You Get? ]
[ Or ]
[ Is That What You Have Come To Expect? ]

[ Will It Be A Word Today? ]
[ Or An Action ]
[ That Is Done Or Said In The Most Disrespectful Way? ]

[ You Grew Up, Being Told, Repeatedly ]
[ & Then Later, Not So Sweetly ]

[ You Need To Respect Your Elders All Of The Time ]
[ Always ]
[ Anytime & Everytime ]

[ Has That Gone Away Like Love Thy Neighbor? ]
[ Oftentimes ]
[ You Are Not Even Given A Name To Remember ]

[ When & Wherever You Grew Up, You Probably Knew All Of The Names Of Everyone On Your Block ]
[ Even Before You Figured Out How To Read The Wall Clock ]

[ Society Is So Closed Off & Impersonal ]
[ Now ]
[ No One Wants To Get The Virus While In The B Terminal ]

[ You Can’t Show A Smile To Anyone While Wearing A Mask ]
[ You Don’t Say (HOW ARE YOU?) ]
[ Because They Can’t Understand Why You’d Even Ask ]

[ Society Has Began To Become Polarized ]
[ Because Of This Curse Of A Virus ]
[ We Can’t Normalize ]
[ Because We Can’t Socialize ]

[ How Can You Show Respect To Someone Who Has To
     Stay ]
[ Six Feet Away ]
[ They Probably Would Not Even Understand Or Hear A Nice
     Word That You Would Say ]

[ Why Is Respect Missing? ]
[ Nobody Is Kissing ]
[ So They Turn Their Energy Into Dismissing ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(471)▪︎[ Then & Now … 2023 ]

[ Do You Remember When ]
[ This Was That ]
[ & Now Is Then ]

[ It Is About That Time That We Let The Little One’s Leave The Nest ]
[ You Might Not Agree ]
[ But You Have To Know That Is For The Best ]

[ For The First (3) Months, We Can Help With Their Bills ]
[ Through The Winter Months ]
[ We Will Make Sure To Pay The Heating Bill So Chastity Does Not Get The Chills ]

[ The Main Thing That I Taught Them Was To Always Pay Your Mortgage Or Your Rent ]
[ With That Payment ]
[ You Will Know  That You Will Have A Better Roof Over Your Head, Than That Family Living In That Little (2) Person Tent ]

[ Our Friends Say That We Made (3) Good, Well Behaved & Educated Kids Now ]
[ Others Wanted To Know How? ]

[ We Knew That There Wasn’t A Secret That We Could Purchase From The Neighborhood Wizard ]
[ Like A Stew With (5) Small Lizards ]

[ A Couple Of Things That You Must Have Is Patience & The Abilty To Listen To The Craziest Situations That Your Kid Can Get In ]
[ Be Very Aware Of When You Tell Any Of Your Kids That They Committed A  Sin ]

[ You Cannot Make Someone Do Something That They Don’t Want To Do ]
[ Would You Like The Same Done To You? ]

[ @ (14), (15) Or (16) Start Treating Them More Like A Young Adult ]
[ Try To Know Who Is In Their Life ]
[ Beawhere Of Anything Resembling A Cult ]

[ A Cult Will Normally Try To Split The Family Into Fractions ]
[ That Is Their First Sign Of Numerous Actions ]

[ Start The Morning With An (I LOVE YOU) ]
[ End The Day ]
[ The Same Way ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(022)▪︎[ Disgusting Society … 2023 ]

[ You Feel Saddened With The Direction That Society Is Going ]
[ It Only Seems Like Progress Is Slowing ]

[ From What You See, P.C. Is All That Matters ]
[ Your Whole Perception Of What Is Normal ]
[ Has Been Shattered ]

[ Violence Is Now Respected ] 
[ Disrespect Is Now Expected ]

[ How Does Society Get Back ]
[ On The Right Track? ]

[ You Can No Longer Greet Strangers With A Smile ]
[ It Has Been Like This For A Very Long While ]

[ Sometimes A Nice Woman Will Smile & Her Eyes Express It ]
[ But That Is Tough To Get ]

[ Strangers Do Not Want Anything To Do With Each Other ]
[ Kids No Longer Go Out & Play ]
[ They Are Inside, Staying Close To Their Mother ]

[ @ Times The Downtown Streets Have Only A Single Car ]
[ Nobody On The Sidewalks ]
[ You Always Know Where They Are ]

[ In The Garage Or Under The Carport ]
[ The Little Kids Are Inside ]
[ Using Blankets To Build Their Fort ]

[ Turning The Streets Into A Ghost Town ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(472)▪︎[ It Is Too Hard To Tell … 2022 ]

[ The Cars, The Bars & The Stars ]
[ All Ending In Lower Case (R’s) ]

[ Everyone Trying To Figure Out What They Should Do ]
[ With What They Know ]
[ & With What They Knew ]

[ It Is The Roll Of The Dice ]
[ If Anyone Would Listen To Something Twice ]
[ If It Started Out As (ICE, ICE … ) ]

[ (BABY!) ]
[ Would That Be An (IF) ]
[ Or Would That Be A (MAYBE?) ]

[ Either Way, The Song Will Last Past My Ring Finger ]
[ & Even Though You Are Not A Singer ]
[ The Background Tune Will Linger ]

[ Way Back In The Recess Of Their Minds ]
[ It Would Be One Of Those Tunes That Reminds ]

[ You Of Better Days ]
[ Beter Waves ]
[ Times When Everybody Behaved ]

[ In A Way That Did Not Make Society Frown ]
[ Or Burn It Down ]

[ Either It Is Or It Isn’t Good ]
[ Some Say That Means That It Is Misunderstood ]

[ That Is Just Another Mistake ]
[ That People Make ]

[ So & So Did This Or Did That ]
[ Some How It Turned Into A Multi Generational Spat ]

[ That Is No Good For Anyone Involved ]
[ Because It Has Taken This Long To Be Solved ]

[ Good Intentions Do Not Mean Squat ]
[ Even The Ones Where There Was Alot Of Thought ]
[ Those Are Thrown Down Into The Pot ]

[ Those Are The Ones That Should Be Voted On ]
[ In The Event The Majority Has Gone ]

[ About Their Ways ]
[ Because There Are Times Where You Might Not Hear From The
Majority For Days ]

[ No Bonfires, No Tikki Torches ]
[ No Leaving The Light On From Their Back Porches ]

[ They Do Not Keep In Touch Very Well ]
[ When’s The Next Time? ]
[ It Is So Hard To Tell ]

______________________
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~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(358)▪︎[ Just Another Job … 2023 ]

[ The Sin Is Deep, Inside Of Me ]
[ But I Have To Keep It, Under Lock & Key ]

[ In My Nightmares, The Man With No Name Put The Weapon In My Hand ]
[ That Helped Me Make It Easier ]
[ To Walk Outside & Kill That Abusive Man ]

[ That Used To Live Two Doors Down ]
[ In Another Apartment ]
[ But His Front Door Was Painted A Dirty Shade Of Brown ]

[ Every Night, The Neighbors Could Hear The Violence ]
[ When The Children Were Allowed To Go To School ]
[ They Were Sworn To Silence ]

[ They Always Showed Up With Broken Bones & Bruises ]
[ The Younger Kids Had Small Contusions ]

[ Whenever The Authorities Would Question The Mom & Dad ]
[ The Mother Would Do All Of The Talking ]
[ When The Father Was Asked, He Always Said (I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD) ]

[ The (5) Children Rarely Played Outside ]
[ The Park Across The Street ]
[ Had Swings & A Slide ]

[ The Neighbors Hardly Ever Saw The Father Come & Go ]
[ His Occupation Was Never Known ]

[ He Left Home When Nobody Was Awake ]
[ Every Once In Awhile, There Would Be This Wonderful Smell, Coming From Their Open Window ]
[ That Showed How Good The Father Could Bake ]

[ That Seemed To Be The Only Positive Attribute ]
[ Of The Man ]
[ Whose Voice Was Always Mute ]

[ Being Noticed, Was Never His Intention ]
[ His Goal @ Work, Was Never Ascension ]

[ Nobody Knew His Wants, Not Even His Wife ]
[ Now, Because Of My Nightmares ]
[ It Has Been Left Up To Me To Shut Off His Light ]

[ Some People Think I Have Jumped On The Insane ]
[ Train ]
[ Because Something Must Have Changed ]
[ In My Brain ]

[ After Living (48) Years Being A Law Abiding Person ]
[ I Have Become The Silent, Angry & Homicidal Version ]

[ I Usually Wake In The Middle Of Most Nights ]
[ Starteled Awake By My Night Frights ]

[ That I Have ]
[ That Do Not Make Me Laugh ]

[ I Have Been A Vigilante For Way Too Many Years To Count ]
[ As The Bodies Mount ]
[ I Cannot Give A Total Amount ]

[ I Have Been Sworn To Silence By The Boss ]
[ If I Disappeared ]
[ Would Anyone Consider My Disappearance A Loss ]

[ Even Though Loneliness Has Been Very Hard ]
[ Having A Spouse & A Family Was Never In The Cards ]

[ Why, Would I Ever Put A Family In Danger ]
[ Only To Have Their Lives Taken From Them ]
[ In The Dark, By A Stranger ]

[ Whenever I Received A Note ]
[ I Never Got A Vote ]

[ On Why It Has Been Given ]

[

[ I Usually Try To Move Near ]
[ So When I Am Seen Many Times Around Where He Lives ]
[ The Target Does Not Say (WHY ARE YOU HERE?) ]

[ Notes Like This, I Treasure ]
[ Because Of Who He Is & What He Does ]
[ Putting Him To Sleep, Is Purely My Pleasure ]

[ I Won’t Touch His Family, Because Of What He Has Already Put Them Through ]
[ I Want Them To Begin A New Life ]
[ While Eventually, He Will Be Known As Someone That They Never Knew ]
[ Maybe I Will Silently Slit His Throat Using My Favorite Knife ]
[ That Will Not Leave A Single Clue ]

[ I Stalk The Neighborhood While Under The Light Of The Moon ]
[ His Family Will Be Safe ]
[ Soon ]

[ You Might Wonder How I Can Decompress? ]
[ After Events Like This ]
[ I Talk With A Woman That Writes A Column For The (WASHINGTON PRESS) ]

[ While She Doesn’t Know My Identity ]
[ I Have Given Her Enough Facts That Were Verified ]
[ So Now She Knows My Murderous Trail History ]

[ Now I Wait For A Cue To Finish My Job ]
[ I Would Want To Tell His Family To NOT Sob ]

[ Once He Is  Gone ]
[ I Hope His Wife & Family ]
[ Can Move On ]

[ Oh Look, He Is Walking @ Night, All By Himself ]
[ With Nobody Else ]

[ With Him ]
[ Could I Get Caught? ]
[ Chances Are Really Slim ]

[ Say Bye-Bye! ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(024)▪︎[ Turning To Jelly … 2023 ]

[ You Feel That Since This Is The New Year ] 
[ It Has Become Perfectly Clear ]

[ That You Should Take A Step Back & Do Something That Is
     Fairly Large ]
[ Since You Have Been Writing One Or More Stories Each Day ]
[ Maybe You Should Stop & Recharge ]

[ The Reason That You Should Not Want To Fully Stop ]
[ What If During Your Hiatus ]
[ Your Interest In Writing Drops? ]

[ That Would Be Pretty Scary ]
[ So Now You Are Really Wary ]

[ Okay You Can Worry If That Makes You Feel More @ Ease ]
[ That Would Be Much Better Than An All Out Freeze! ]

[ You Don’t Want To Get To Be Scared Of Your Own Shadow! ]
[ Oh ]
[ No, No, No ]

[ That Is Not The Purpose Of This ]
[ Neither Is Dropping Everything & Starting A New List ]

[ You Know That You Have Way Too Many Lists Already ]
[ So Many ]
[ If You Looked @ It Cumulatively ]
[ It Would Turn Your Legs To Jelly ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(258)▪︎[ Don’t Take A Drink … 3•1•2023 ]

[ How & Why Do I Stay Sober? ]
[ It’s Not Because I Found A Field Covered With Four Leaf Clover ]

[ Every Day That I Do Not Take A Drink ]
[ That Is Another Day That My Head Is Not In The Sink ]
[ Or Spend One Minute Living On The Brink ]

[ Of Ruining My Life ]
[ Because I Cherish My Son & Wife ]
[ & I Want To Continue To Write ]

[ In College I Became A Week-End Drinker ]
[ But That Didn’t Cause Me To Be A Foggy Thinker ]

[ It Did Seem That I Got Drunk Really Quick ]
[ I Was Always Thankful That Come Morning ]
[ I Never Had A Hangover Or Got Sick ]

[ I Never Did Aquire A Taste For Beer Or Wine ]
[ Even When We Went Out To Dine ]
[ I Took That As A Good Sign ]

[ I Don’t Think That I Ever Had A Drink When We Were Out About The Town ]
[ I Never Threw Up Or Fell Down ]
[ I Never Was Mistaken Me For A Clown ]

[ My Dad Shot Himself When He Came Home Drunk From The Bar ]
[ @ Least He Didn’t Kill Anybody With His Car ]
[ The Walk Home Was Not Very Far ]

[ Not Far Enough To Sober Up ]
[ I Wish The Bar Would Has Given My Dad A Full Coffee Cup ]

[ That’s One Of The Reasons Why Alcohol Has No Place In My Life ]
[ I’m So Thankful I Have A Like-Minded Thinking Wife ]
[ Alcohol Caused No Strife ]

[ I’ve Celebrated With Alcohol Once In The Last 34 Years ]
[ Getting Hooked & Addicted Brings Me No Fears ]
[ Being An Alcoholic Pushes People To Tears ]

[ Alcohol Alcohol, It’s Not For Me ]
[ Being An Alcoholic Is Not Something That I Will Be ]
[ If I Was Ever Doubted ]
[ I Would Say (LOOK @ MY PAST HISTORY) ]

[ Are You Always Able ]
[ To Push Your Chair Away From The Table? ]

[ If Others Were Drinking ]
[ Would That Cause You To Start Thinking? ]

[ Thinking About Which Way To Go? ]
[ Are You Confident About Being Strong? ]
[ Would You Ever Know ]
[ What Would Happen If You Were Wrong? ]

[ Would You Have Any Kind Of A Plan? ]
[ Do You Remember The Last Time That This Happened? ]
[ You Ran ]

[ You Would Hope So ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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(257)▪︎[ Only The Lonely … 1•22•2023 ]

[ How Does Someone Deal With The Loneliness? ]
[ A Bit Of The Onliness ]
[ Because You Want A Little Of The Only ]
[ Be A Little Bit Less ]

[ Do You Push Aside ]
[ Your Pride? ]
[ So Your Emotions Are Not Taken On An Up & Down Ride? ]

[ Are You Checked On? ]
[ Maybe Twice ]
[ Does It Feel Wrong ]
[ Well, It Didn’t Feel Nice ]

[ But They All Gathered & Made Themselves A Team ]
[ That Sounds So Special ]
[ Kind Of Like A Dream ]
[ But One That Was Rational ]

[ Oh, Everybody Came Together In Harmony ]
[ You Almost Expected Some Kind Of Home Made Remedy ]

[ It Could All Have Their Own Part ]
[ & Express The Happy Feelings That Come From The Heart ]

[ Now They’re Having A Laugh A Minute ]
[ You Just Guess That Your Heart Isn’t In It ]

[ They’re Right, You Could Have Come In There @ Any Time ]
[ You Feel It’s Much More Important To Write Another Rhyme ]

[ Do You Join In Or Stand Back? ]
[ Feeling Wanted Is What This Lacks ]

[ You Just Have Too Thin ]
[ Of Skin ]
[ Where’s The Vodka ]
[ Where’s The Gin? ]
[ Oh, There’s The Tequila ]
[ Let The Drinking Begin! ]

[ Pass The Lemon, Give Me The Lime ]
[ When She Hands You The Cuervo Gold ]
[ It Is Drinking Time ]
[ Until Someone Gets Knocked Out Cold ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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