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Posted on June 10, 2024 by sputterpub

We’re tired of this virus, but nobody’s feeling ill,and protocols have been relaxed a lot.We’re still supposed to isolate 5 days and, sure, we will,but I refuse to add another jotof rhyming words and meter to what’s ailing me and … Continue reading →

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Spring Surge

Posted on June 9, 2024 by sputterpub

Two new infected candidates emerge,who didn’t catch their Covid germs from me.This really seems to be a vernal surge –no rapid test is negative. So weare isolating, homebound, separately,who might as well be gathering as not,except nobody has the energyto … Continue reading →

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Empathology

Posted on June 5, 2024 by sputterpub

I disagree with everyone, and yet,they all seem close to perfect when I lookat challenges and stresses. I forgeteach flaw if I consider how I’d brookhis pain and her neurosis. For I betconfronted with their presents, I’d unhookmy any tether … Continue reading →

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Another Wave

Posted on June 3, 2024 by sputterpub

A tide of Covid cycles through again.My baby’s family has now been struck.The father first detected it at 10on Saturday – that prior evening’s guckin throat was more than normal vernal phlegm.Today we learned the scion didn’t duckinfection, but we … Continue reading →

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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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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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Amputation

Posted on May 18, 2024 by sputterpub

Remembering a woman 40 yearsago, who birthed a daughter long-desired,and then confessed to me, voice choked with tears,she couldn’t love the baby as required…It wasn’t that she’d harm the child – no –but deep attachment didn’t fill her soul.Two years … Continue reading →

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Done

Posted on May 17, 2024 by sputterpub

Her misinterpretation is so gross,the cause could be stupidity or, worse,perhaps it’s really meanness and a doseof insecure amounting to a cursethat’s warped her view and obviated closerelationship. Love shuttered to reverse.The pearl devolved – became a grain of grit … 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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Just Check it Out

Posted on May 1, 2024 by sputterpub

Just check it out, if you are into games.If you love art in vibrant hues that shout,if you’re enchanted by Teutonic names,just check it out. Developed by some talents now aboutfive decades old and burnished in life’s flames,their field’s a … Continue reading →

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