Category Archives: Aging

Could Be

Posted on May 29, 2024 by sputterpub

We’ve wondered what is keeping her on earth.She’s not amassing wisdom, but maybeshe senses the dysfunction since my birthand realizes, no doubt subconsciously,if she were dead I’d pen her eulogy.Alive she can continue the abuseand I, so old myself, at … Continue reading →

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Marquise

Posted on May 27, 2024 by sputterpub

Describing what it’s feeling like to ageand watch my peers advancing by my side,I sense we’re all condensing. Like our gaugeis dialed back, and where it once was wideis narrowed and it’s concentrating traitsthat bloomed a quarter century from birth,that … Continue reading →

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Forcing Fallacy

Posted on May 26, 2024 by sputterpub

I have to lie, although that means I throwa game we said we’d honor till we die.The whining for “I’m sorry” makes me knowI have to lie. It’s not my fault she’s bothered. She won’t tryexamining herself as cause of … Continue reading →

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Emotion Quotient

Posted on May 25, 2024 by sputterpub

Her brain’s too old, her heart too apt to hurt.She’s nothing but emotion, truth be told.She feels her feelings tear, and ought to blurther brain’s too old. She looks to blame someone outside, to holdresponsible in words she doesn’t skirt,a … Continue reading →

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Adults are Kings

Posted on May 23, 2024 by sputterpub

Adults are kings at first – they have to be.At least until the offspring spread their wingsthe parents are omnipotent – kids seeadults are kings. From birth that keeps the children safe, for thingsare hazardous, the rules securityto guard against … Continue reading →

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Learning

Posted on May 22, 2024 by sputterpub

Obsessive language study lately fillsup time I used to put to poetry. If I have any bucket list, it wills me to acquire bilinguality. I’ve thrice attempted it half-heartedly — in class, through books, at home or restaurant — but … Continue reading →

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It Seems to Me

Posted on May 21, 2024 by sputterpub

It seems to me, when love is not supplied,although an infant’s fed sufficiently,the baby’s sense of normal’s quantified,it seems to me. A while passes learning how to be;as words and actions are identified,the kid acquires optimistically. So fault must be … Continue reading →

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Escorting

Posted on May 16, 2024 by sputterpub

Accompanying nearly 99to co-absorb the words the doctor said,I think we helped. We didn’t hear her whine,and when we saw confusion take her head,we acted as interpreters insteadof letting miscommunication stand.Our aim is not more years until she’s dead,but maybe … Continue reading →

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Back on Track

Posted on May 14, 2024 by sputterpub

6 weeks of rest and 2 new pairs of shoesproduced recuperative results for me.I didn’t fall or carelessly abusethe outer edge of my extremity,but here’s a case where what I can accuseme of is lacking the humilityto understand fragility in … Continue reading →

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Getting Together

Posted on May 13, 2024 by sputterpub

In person is more suitable than phone.We get along so well when face to face.We both enjoy our habitats aloneand daily chat, but when I leave my placeand you do too, we meet and neither’s thrownby attitude. It isn’t an … Continue reading →

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