Category Archives: Personality

Character Sketch

Posted on June 14, 2024 by sputterpub

She storms the doctors’ office when they fail to call her back,although there hasn’t been a long delay.She reads her own anxiety and goes on the attack,and won’t attend to anything we say.“What’s wrong with it?” she’ll challenge. “I just … Continue reading →

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Dream Brackets

Posted on June 6, 2024 by sputterpub

The night was bracketed by reveriesco-starring men I never met before.While drifting off, the hug spanned chest to knees,the perfect pressure making me want more.And just before I woke, I took a tourof new acquaintance threatening no hurt.Some problems almost … Continue reading →

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Azure

Posted on June 1, 2024 by sputterpub

I wonder why I’m feeling somewhat sad.I noticed it last night and it’s still here.I sense within unease, though I’m not madand I’m not sick. I don’t detect a fearor hurt. I’m loved by all whom I hold dear.I overate … 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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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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Desultory

Posted on April 29, 2024 by sputterpub

I’d made it past mid-century. My storywas more than halfway spun when I employeda word I’d only read – said “desultory”with accent wrong. I laughed, for I enjoyedthat token youthfulness. When I was tenI mispronounced determine “dee-ter-mine.”It tickled me that … Continue reading →

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A Personal Tragedy in 3 Acts

Posted on April 24, 2024 by sputterpub

The baby triggered his pathology(or that’s the way his arc appears from here).Her birth engendered protectivity,erecting walls that ceiled the atmosphere,that met in peaks to close off light and air,and when the breathless spouse declared them done,the wound re-opened (one … Continue reading →

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Not My Job

Posted on April 23, 2024 by sputterpub

You seem to seek approval when you’re coarseor petulant. Rejecting self-controlyou fling or rant, and want me to endorsebehavior that’s repellant. You’re not drolland you’re not nice, and you’ll not earn respectbecause your hair is gray and you have wealth.I … Continue reading →

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The Absence of the Problem

Posted on April 19, 2024 by sputterpub

Remembering a lawsuit long ago,a meritless complaint that went for yearsbefore dismissal (prejudiced!), I knowthat after months of daily stress and fears,when fair relief arrives, the cure is slow.An aggravation long-sustained is dust,but happiness is slow while I adjust.

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In Process Progress

Posted on April 13, 2024 by sputterpub

Until I checked and saw the welcome phrase,I didn’t know how much my peace was wrecked.I’d wasted months and suffered more delays,until I checked. At first Manhattan led me to expectif I’d apply and give them 90 days,they’d honor what … Continue reading →

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