[ I Was Told To Go Down To The E.D. Really Quick ]
[ So Right Now I Am Surrounded By Lots Of People
That Are Sick ]
[ For The Evenings Entertainment, This Would Not Have Been My
Very First Choice ]
[ It Does Not Matter Which Way That I Turn ]
[ I Am Surrounded By Noise ]
[ I Am Sweating Through My Second Set Of Clothes ]
[ What Is Wrong With Me ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ I Am Betting ]
[ It Might Have Something To Do With My Constant Sweating ]
[ It Has Always Been Crystal Clear ]
[ My Dr. Normally Does Not Send Me Here ]
[ We Were Surprised To Read That ]
[ But He Said That Is The Place I Needed To Be @ ]
[ It Zaps Me Of All Of My Willpower ]
[ To Hear Other People Saying That They Have Been Waiting For
Several Hours ]
[ Just Now A Random Guy Came Up To Me Begging For Food ]
[ I Wanted To Say (DUDE … ) ]
[ (CHECK WHERE YOU ARE @!) Without Sounding Rude ]
[ This Has Not Been Very Thrilling ]
[ & These Cold Sweats Sure Are Extremely Chilling ]
[ When I Am Cold, That Means I Do Not Feel Well ]
[ For The Last (4) Days I Have Felt Like Hell ]
[ @ Least I Still Have My Sense Of Taste & Smell ]
[ So No Worry Of Having The ‘VID 19 Here ]
[ @ Least That Is (1) Thing To Cheer ]
[ About ]
[ But Not Shout ]
[ Out ]
[ I Would Not Want To Cause A Rift ]
[ & Have Someone Think That They Could Come & Give It To Me
As A Gift ]
[ I Am Starting To Feel Tired ]
[ What I Wouldn’t Give ]
[ To Be Sitting Beside A Fire ]
[ My Clothes Feel Cold & Wet ]
[ The Wait Here Will Be Long I Bet ]
[ Oh How I Wish I Could Click My Heels Together & Say
(THERE’s NO PLACE LIKE HOME!) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(838)▪︎[ She Had A Good Thing Here … 10•3•2021 ]
[ So She Said That What She Was Doing Here Was Below Her
Skill-Set ]
[ She Was, One Of The Best You Had Ever Met ]
[ But Then She Started To Over Exaggerate Her Skills ]
[ The Many Days That She Missed ]
[ Did Not Even Pay Her Bills ]
[ Her Attendance Record Spoke For Itself ]
[ Can She Actually Show Up On Time Somewhere Else? ]
[ That Is One Thing That You Will Doubt ]
[ That Will Be One Thing That You Won’t Care To Find Out ]
[ A Person Like That Does Not Just Change Her Ways ]
[ In A Matter Of Days ]
[ Out Of 133 Possible Shifts, She Called Out Over 49 Times ]
[ That Sure Was Alot Of Lost Dimes ]
[ Is It Because You Really Wish For Her The Worst ]
[ If You Could ]
[ You Would Send Her A Curse ]
[ She Would Have Gotten Paid ]
[ If She Only Stayed ]
[ She Screwed You In The End ]
[ You Did Nothing But Bend ]
[ You Should Have Been Wary @ First ]
[ But You Always Tried Your Damndest To Help Quench Her
Thirst ]
[ You Fed Her Almost Every Shift ]
[ She Never Really Appreciated That Gift ]
[ When She Ate, Boy Did She Eat ]
[ Your Generosity Could Not Be Beat ]
[ She Looked A Gift Horse In The Mouth ]
[ When She Came Into Your House ]
[ It Is So Clear ]
[ That She Had A Great Thing Here ]
[ But She Did Not Care ]
[ Because She Chose To Take Her Horrible Attendance Elsewhere ]
[ Now She Is Someone Else’s Problem ]
[ Hmmm … Sucks To Be Them ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(843)▪︎[ No Sleep … 10•4•2021 ]
[ Everytime That You Go To Bed, Is It Always You -vs-
The Night? ]
[ Is Getting To Sleep Always A Fight? ]
[ When You Close Your Eyes, All You See Is Dark ]
[ The Difference Is Stark ]
[ Dreams Don’t Start ]
[ You Hear The Beats Of Your Heart ]
[ You Open Your Eyes ]
[ & Only (3) Minutes Has Ticked By ]
[ You Can’t Even Count Sheep ]
[ To Get To Sleep ]
[ That Just Doesn’t Work For You ]
[ If It Does Work ]
[ Than For Who? ]
[ You Take The Most Potent Sleep Medication There Is ]
[ It Is Right There, On The Top Of The List ]
[ After Drinking It, You Just Sit There & Wait ]
[ & Wait & Wait & Wait ]
[ You See That It Is Getting Late ]
[ So Much Time Goes By, It Becomes Early The Next Day ]
[ But You Keep Waiting To Drift Away ]
[ Then You Become A Prisoner To Your Medication ]
[ It Changes Your Thinking ]
[ Your Equilibrium Goes On Vacation ]
[ It Is A Very Potent, Mind Changing Drug ]
[ It Is Not A Warm Hug ]
[ It Tastes So Salty You Just Want To Drink It Really Fast ]
[ But The Taste Still Lasts ]
[ It Is Like Pouring ½ A Salt Shaker On Your Tongue ]
[ You Don’t Even Do That When You’re Young ]
[ The Minutes Just Drag On ]
[ ½ The Night Is Gone ]
[ Must You Hold Your Breath? ]
[ To Get Some Rest? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(842)▪︎[ How? … 10•4•2021 ]
[ Just Because You Are Abused, Does Not Mean That You Will
Abuse ]
[ Just Because You Are Around Drugs ]
[ Does Not Always Mean That You Will Use ]
[ One Night Your Older Sister & Her Friends Tried To Get
You High ]
[ But You Flat Out Declined ]
[ You Put Up A Fight ]
[ Because You Did Not Think That It Was Right ]
[ They Thought It Was Their Place ]
[ To Blow Smoke In Your Face ]
[ You Kept These Facts ]
[ Of These Acts ]
[ Under Your Hat ]
[ & You Never Told Barbara About Any Of That ]
[ Statistics Find ]
[ That When You Are Abused As A Child ]
[ It Messes With Your Mind ]
[ You Were Horribly Abused By Barbara, The First ]
[ You Were Denied Food ]
[ & Water, To Quench Your Thirst ]
[ She Would Leave You For Hours On End ]
[ When Would She Come Back? ]
[ That Would Completely Depend ]
[ On How Much Needed To Be Done ]
[ Life As A Toddler ]
[ Was Not Alot Of Fun ]
[ She Would Feed & Nurture The Other Two ]
[ But There Was Nothing Left For You ]
[ You Were Starved So Long, You Grew An Distended
Belly ]
[ You Were Not Even Given Sandwiches Of Peanut Butter &
Jelly ]
[ Barbara Did Not Like You Much ]
[ For Many Days On End She Skipped Your Breakfast &
Lunch ]
[ It Was Not Because She Was Poor ]
[ Maybe She Wanted To See How Much Abuse You Could
Endure ]
[ Your Wicked, Abusive Mother ]
[ Doted On Your Older Sister ]
[ & Baby Brother ]
[ She Helped Them Thrive ]
[ All She Wanted To Do With You, Is Barely Keep You Alive ]
[ Your Father Heard About All Of This ]
[ & Came Back Over To Hawaii ]
[ To Grab You & Your Sis ]
[ After Barbara Signed Off Her Parental Rights For All
(3) Of Us ]
[ She Walked Out Of Court & Caught A Bus ]
[ To Never Be Seen Again ]
[ She Probably Thought That Was A Win-Win ]
[ It Was For A Little While ]
[ She Was No Longer Able To Abuse Her Child ]
[ But Then Your Dad & His Girlfriend Got Into One Of
The Worst Fights ]
[ It Was Like This, For Many Nights ]
[ But Your Dad Thought That He Would Ruin All Of The Fun ]
[ He Left The Room ]
[ But Came Back With His Gun ]
[ He First Put It To His Girlfriends Head ]
[ Click … It Did Not Fire ]
[ It Worked On His Instead ]
[ How Much More Can You Take? ]
[ Why Did You Have To Be Awake? ]
[ Through All Of This, How Have You Been Able To Walk That Thin
Line? ]
[ Why Don’t You Spend Your Nights Passed Out From Too
Much Cheap Wine? ]
[ Why Don’t You Hate Life? ]
[ How Have You Made It Through More Than (25) Years With The
Same Wife? ]
[ It Is That Inner Drive ]
[ That Has Kept You Alive ]
[ You Have Never Abused Anyone ]
[ You Never Laid Your Hands On Your (18) Year Old Son ]
[ How Did You Not Turn To Drugs & Alcohol? ]
[ How Did You Keep That On The Other Side Of The Wall? ]
[ Your Older Sister Succumbed To Them ]
[ Your Younger Brother Had A Drinking Problem ]
[ You Were The (1) Out Of The (3) That Barbara Did Not Want To
Survive ]
[ But You Are The Only (1) That Is Still Alive ]
[ How? ]
[ Why Look @ This Now? ]
[ ? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(841)▪︎[ Not Your Turn, Yet … 10•3•2021 ]
[ When You Wake Up In The Morning Are You Destined
To Live Up To Your Potential? ]
[ When You Think Back Into Your Past ]
[ Who Was Influential? ]
[ Who Helped Pave Your Path Up To Now? ]
[ Who Helped You In Life? ]
[ Who Showed You How? ]
[ How To Maneuver Around The Curves? ]
[ Who Taught You How To Steady Your Nerves? ]
[ What Got You Out Of Bed To Thrive? ]
[ Was It Internal Drive? ]
[ It All Comes Down To The Reflection In The Mirror ]
[ It Was Always You That Got You To Right Here ]
[ Don Certainly Was Not Your Strong Male Role Model ]
[ He Did Quite The Opposite ]
[ Of Love & Coddle ]
[ He Basically Told You That You Were On Your Own ]
[ He Never Took The Time To Show Any Love ]
[ Or Ever Throw You A Bone ]
[ You Had To Learn From The Few Friends That You Had ]
[ You Envied The Relationships That They Had With Their Dads ]
[ Don Would Take You To Your Games, But He Would Never
Stay ]
[ All Through The Many Seasons Of Competing In Sports ]
[ He Never Wanted To See You Play ]
[ That Was Just The Way He Was ]
[ No Rhyme Or Reason ]
[ He Was That Way Just Because ]
[ You Learned The Ways Of The World By Watching Other
Adult Men Interact ]
[ You Would Watch Something Happen ]
[ Then You Would See How They React ]
[ No One Was Around To Tell You Not To Step There ]
[ When You’d Fall ]
[ Don Did Not Care ]
[ You Figured Out How To Interact With Others ]
[ By Watching Others ]
[ That Was Plain & Simple ]
[ You Never Throw A Stone Into A Calm Pond ]
[ Just To Watch It Ripple ]
[ Try To Behave ]
[ By Not Making Waves ]
[ You Might Be Slow ]
[ But It Has Always Been Your Internal Drive That Makes You Go ]
[ You Were Never Taught How To Be A Father Or A Husband ]
[ Sometimes You Don’t Know How To Unwind ]
[ When You Get All Wound Up Like A Tight Rubber Band]
[ It Is Hard Not To Put That Big Wall Up & Go Within ]
[ It Is Tough To Know That You Can’t Talk To Any Kin ]
[ They Are All Gone & Dead ]
[ In Your Head ]
[ You Center Your Life ]
[ On Your Few Friends & Wife ]
[ When You Close Your Eyes @ Night ]
[ Please Remember … ]
[ It Is Not Your Turn To Walk Towards The Light ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(825)▪︎[ Be Gentle … 9•29•2021 ]
[ As The Water Gently Flows ]
[ So Goes ]
[ The Day ]
[ In A Way ]
[ Nobody Can Tell ]
[ When & Where You Fell ]
[ Do You Talk About Your Skinned Knee? ]
[ To He Or She? ]
[ No You Don’t, It Seems ]
[ Because No One Reacted To Your Screams ]
[ A Head Out The Door To Take A Peek ]
[ Nobody Listens To You When You Speak ]
[ Nobody Has Heard ]
[ A Single Word ]
[ That You Say ]
[ During The Day ]
[ Or Night ]
[ So, Please Do Not Pick Another Fight ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(824)▪︎[ Pull Your Pants Up! … 9•29•2021 ]
[ What Is The Point Of Wearing His Pants So Low? ]
[ Is It Always To Show ]
[ The Brand Of His Underwear ]
[ For All To Know? ]
[ What Is The Purpose For The Belt? ]
[ Is That So His Butt Won’t Melt? ]
[ You Are Not Curious Of The Brand Or Size ]
[ Maybe It Is So His Butt Will Have A Disguise? ]
[ Disguise From What? ]
[ That He Has An Irregular Butt? ]
[ You Don’t Care ]
[ For Him To Share ]
[ That, He Can Keep To Himself ]
[ So He Does Not Have To Give That HUGE Bit Of Information
To Anyone Else ]
[ Not Too Many Others Have The Guts ]
[ To Bare Their Butts ]
[ Some Would Be Harassed ]
[ If They Went Around Showing People Their Ass ]
[ But Then, There Are Some Cute Ones Out There That You Would
Like To Stop & Touch ]
[ Not For Very Long ]
[ & Not Too Much ]
[ Those Cute Butts Are Few & Far In-Between ]
[ & Those Butts Are Not Just On The Bodies Of A Teen ]
[ Since You Are A Man, You Don’t Think That Male Butts Are Nice
To Look @ ]
[ Most Of Them You Would Guess ]
[ Are All Hairy & Fat ]
[ You Would Think That This Would Be All The Rage For Male
Teens ]
[ Once You See A Males Buttcrack ]
[ That Is Something That You Can’t Un-See ]
[ Why Wouldn’t Adult Men Grow Out Of This Teen Fad? ]
[ Adult Men, Still Wearing Their Pants Like This, Is Kind
Of Sad ]
[ Pulling Their Pants Up, Would Not Look All That Bad ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(822)▪︎[ Where Are You? … 9•28•2021 ]
[ Is There Always A Plateau ]
[ That Others Will Know? ]
[ Some Never Know What Their Stress Level Is ]
[ They Might Say That It Was That ]
[ Or That It Is This ]
[ A Very Smart Man Once Figured Out That Character Is Defined
By The Weakest Moments In Your Life, Not The Strongest ]
[ The Character Defining Moment Is When You Are @ Your
Lowest ]
[ One Thing That You Must Do Is Create Stability ]
[ & Know Your Own Abilities ]
[ If You Do Not Know ]
[ Then How Do You Expect To Grow ]
[ Don’t Settle On Just Being Alive ]
[ Figure Out What To Do That Helps You Thrive ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(810)▪︎[ Are You Content With Your Day? … 9•24•2021 ]
[ Are Your Today’s ]
[ Filled With Promise ]
[ Or Broken Yesterday’s?]
[ You Can Never Go Back & Correct Yesterday’s (OOPS) ]
[ You Can’t Go Play Basketball & Try To Make Those Missed
Hoops ]
[ You Will Always Miss Those Shots That Weren’t Taken ]
[ Can You Go Back & Correct The Times When You Were
Mistaken? ]
[ Mistaken I.D. Or Choice ]
[ A Number Or Who Belongs To That Voice ]
[ Your Today’s Should Get Everything For All Of Those
Tomorrow’s In Your Future ]
[ Learn How To Love & Nurture ]
[ It Feels Good To Pay It Forward Whenever You Get The
Chance ]
[ Don’t Always Stay Seated In A Chair ]
[ Get Up & Join The Dance ]
[ Get Your Groove On, Every Once In Awhile ]
[ You Don’t Have To Dance Well ]
[ But You Can Show Everyone That You Have Style ]
[ Yesterday Could Be Filled With Answers For Tomorrow’s
Tests ]
[ Wake Up Every Morning With The Intentions Of Doing Your
Best ]
[ Sometimes When You Have The Answers The Questions Are
Different ]
[ Well, So Much For Feeling Confident ]
[ Some People Think That Confidence Is Good ]
[ Sometimes Confidence Can Be Misunderstood ]
[ There Are A Whole Lots Of People Who Can Talk ]
[ There Are Very Few People Can Do The Walk ]
[ They Only Walk In One Direction ]
[ That Would Be Forward ]
[ Unless Someone Had A Better Suggestion ]
[ No Juking One Way Or The Other ]
[ Be Friendly With People That You Meet ]
[ Then Do Not Smother ]
[ Wash Your Dishes & Your Pans ]
[ Look @ Tomorrow & Make Some Plans ]
[ Do Not Let Your Mistakes Rule Your Life ]
[ Get Your Bicycle Out Of The Garage & Go For A Ride ]
[ Then, When The Moon Takes Over The Day, From The Sun ]
[ Try To Be Happy, With What You Have Done ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(830)▪︎[ On The Right Page … 10•1•2021 ]
[ I Have To Say ]
[ (THANK YOU) For Every Day ]
[ That You Pull A Chair Up Next To Me & Say (YES, I WILL STAY!) ]
[ I Grew Up Thinking That People Don’t ]
[ I Grew Up Being Shown That Parents Won’t ]
[ Hell Yes I Carry Alot Of Baggage With Me ]
[ But Now You Know Why ]
[ Now You Can See ]
[ Don & Barbara Were The Judge ]
[ Of Whether They Would Budge ]
[ About Holding A Grudge ]
[ I Can Talk About All Of What Is In My Head ]
[ & You Would Show Me Understanding Instead ]
[ Thank You For Telling Me That My (GOODNIGHT) Does
Matter ]
[ & You Weren’t Telling Me Just To Make Idle Chatter ]
[ You Are The Definition Of What A True Friend Is ]
[ If You Don’t Believe Me Give Me A Minute & I Will Make You
A List ]
[ You Have Stuck By Me Through The Good & The Bad ]
[ The Happy & Sad ]
[ You Do Not Judge Me By What I Do ]
[ It Means The World To Me That You Love Me, Too ]
[ You May Live Far Apart ]
[ But I Hold Our Friendship, Near & Dear To My Heart ]
[ I Would Love It If You Moved Back Home ]
[ Then We Would Have More Contact With Each Other ]
[ Than Sending Texts On Our Phones ]
[ Real Live Contact Face To Face ]
[ Thank You For Making The Effort To Come To My Place ]
[ I Surely Want The Doctors To Figure Out The Problems
With Your Health First ]
[ I Don’t Like Knowing That There Are Times That You Hurt ]
[ You Have So Much Going On, But You Do Not Complain
@ All ]
[ During Those Times That You Do I Wish That You Would Give Me A Call ]
[ You Have Always Been The Wise One Between Us Two ]
[ When It Is Time To Show Respect ]
[ I Want To Give You What You Are Due ]
[ Maybe I Was Never Mature Enough To Write These Stories
@ A Younger Age ]
[ I Guess In My Book Of My Life ]
[ I Was Yet To Get To This Page ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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