Category Archives: Personality

Toward Home

Posted on October 31, 2024 by sputterpub

When I return I’ll get to be alone.The only hum will come from bugs. I’ll burnsome time on streaming and my telephone,when I return. For solitude I’ve had the time to yearn.Companion comments have devolved to drone;the unintended resting-face is … Continue reading →

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More Gullibility

Posted on October 29, 2024 by sputterpub

There’s unreliability in somedepictions of a character like mine(or yours as well). Describers may be dumb,or envious, or simply careless. Fineprecision isn’t usual. Combinethat with resenting any female grist,or family dynamics. I opinefrom sore experience, with sorrow kissed.

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Opposites

Posted on October 28, 2024 by sputterpub

So here’s the thing: she hums when she exhales,self-deprecating with complaining face.I’m opposite – my silence none assails,but I seem harsher than my thoughts embrace.Adopting patience now, receptive grace,no longer feeling adamant or stern,we each are our reverse. What’s more, … Continue reading →

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Three Six One

Posted on October 21, 2024 by sputterpub

Three days it always takes to carve a groovethat I can start to follow forwardly,to make initial paces to improvein movement, diet, and mentality.Six weeks to form a habit, experts say,and I’ve experienced that’s wisely neat:a new tradition’s born that … Continue reading →

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Just a Question

Posted on October 1, 2024 by sputterpub

I asked “How are you?” and I meant it too.You sensed sincerity and looked concerned,as if I had suspicions maybe youshould be upset about, as if I learnedsome fact of disadvantage. That’s untrue.It’s just that I’m aware how often burnedyou … Continue reading →

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Loathing

Posted on September 26, 2024 by sputterpub

I loathe it then – you waste your words to me,suggesting fruitless effort once again,or starting any statement “hopefully.”I loathe it then. I wish you’d mean it if you say amen,conversing with apparent empathy,or syllables that use no oxygen. Of … Continue reading →

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Shifting

Posted on September 25, 2024 by sputterpub

I hit the floor in drive to tick off things:the puzzles, Duolingo, more, imploredue time from me, until set schedule bringsme showered dressed & ready out my door.From 6 until 11, I’d beforeme motivation and a bid to move.When finally … Continue reading →

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My New Salon

Posted on September 17, 2024 by sputterpub

Like most, when we were told to stay inside,it interrupted hair cuts for a while.Accepting that, embracing germicide,I let my gray hair grow, and soon no stylegave me new ideas (and anyway,who saw?) In time some cuts resumed – by … Continue reading →

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Small Changes

Posted on September 16, 2024 by sputterpub

I’m moving slower, but it’s not becauseI’m older or in pain or feel unwell.Avoiding careless injury and flawsin attitude – now grace begins to gelin me – a microchange in every cell.The dashing never won me any boon –it only … Continue reading →

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Confidence (Again)

Posted on September 14, 2024 by sputterpub

Of course I’ve tried to change behavior morethan once, and more than once I’ve likewise failed.What felt like stubbornness then made me sureto try again – I’m worth the work entailed.But I’ve seen others flunk and hit the floor –they … Continue reading →

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