Category Archives: Personality

Indolescence

Posted on July 7, 2025 by sputterpub

Can she be indolent? If it’s a skill,she may need time to find her expertise.Since seventeen the girl’s derived a thrillfrom countering her mother’s harsh decreesof selfishness and laziness. Her willhas led to diligent activitiesthat now appear a form of … Continue reading →

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Go Figure This

Posted on July 2, 2025 by sputterpub

Go figure this – she focused the complainton one of two. Maternal prejudicefrom her is never subtle, nothing faint –go figure this. What she deems cute is dull and obvious.She thinks a gripe and blurts without restraint,and any wound she’ll … Continue reading →

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Cake Remake

Posted on June 24, 2025 by sputterpub

A dream remembered after I’m awakea couple hours, had me with someoneas I prepare a very simple cakethat, in the oven right before it’s done,I realize lacks a needed fat. I’d spunthe mix too rapidly, and left a partbehind. Although … Continue reading →

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CritiScope

Posted on June 18, 2025 by sputterpub

It’s odd how often people I know welldescribe and criticize peculiar traitsthey find in others, which they’d like to quell,but miss the obvious that implicates.The selfsame qualities which in them dwellenable recognition. Wisdom waits,and I’ll bet I don’t have immunity.I’ll … Continue reading →

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Flags & Amulets

Posted on June 15, 2025 by sputterpub

Considering a flag or banner placedupon a wall or on a window pane,it signifies a welcome where embraceda fellow’d be, distinguished from the mainconveyance of connection to a mastthat serves as call to rally round and sing,to follow into battle … Continue reading →

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Settling on Stillness

Posted on June 12, 2025 by sputterpub

Like any animal, I note what moves.No matter if it’s predator or prey,attention’s caught by motion and behoovesat least alertness. Mostly I obey,but evolution sometimes disimproves,and veers from wisdom’s route so far away,I am resisting instinct’s pattern, tillI reap the … Continue reading →

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Transfer Fail

Posted on June 8, 2025 by sputterpub

It wasn’t till I reached into my packto pull my wallet for the snacks in hand,that I perceived its absence. Round my backan empty pocket made me understandI had no wherewithal. But from my standI didn’t fret. I felt surprised … Continue reading →

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Lost Grocery Arts

Posted on June 4, 2025 by sputterpub

Before the stores adopted scanning ways,when customers used cash, it wasn’t strangeto see employees ring the price one paysand be adept at calculating change.And as for bagging purchases these days,I’d have you note I walked, and so arrangethe items for … Continue reading →

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Home Sweet

Posted on June 1, 2025 by sputterpub

Perhaps it’s that I push myself when out,eschewing bus to walk in weighted vest,indulging family, but there’s no doubtthe place I long to be, the chosen best,is in my little house, where I’m undressedand solitary, working on a poem,reclining, reading, … Continue reading →

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Early Errands

Posted on May 26, 2025 by sputterpub

Two nights ago as I lay down to sleep,I contemplated chores that I could dothe next day or the next, for each would keep –immediate was no demand I knew.Then rising early, I’d the mood for twobefore my exercise, and … Continue reading →

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