Get Your Premium Membership

Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite Pastimes

Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes Livingsocial at 324 Level Road circa post high school graduation found yours truly voluntarily holed up for an inordinate amount of time within familiar four walls of his bedroom. He preferred solitude versus interacting with either his father or mother, practicing perfect aggressive passive posture whereby one or the other parent hurled curses. Non-social trademark characteristic thwarted him joining in any reindeer games, being withdrawn and undersized overlaid with figurative veneer of anxiety and a submucosal cleft palate to boot condemned him to lapse into comfortably numb state of isolation and loneliness. Escapism courtesy binge reading attempting to relish every tome contributed to purposefulness helping to answer why I did exist plus acquisition of knowledge kindled gray matter approximately size of left and right fist allowed, enabled, and provided grist buzzfeeding overactive imagination engendering fantasies, you get the jist at expense of never getting son kissed during pre/post adolescence essentially a wallflower major/minor milestones missed (such as going to the prom) in retrospect, I feel grievously pissed. Solitary non trivial pursuits, across checkered past monopolized inborn instinct never to witness salubrious socialization to flourish, (please don't feel sorry) though cultivating modest knack with English language a commendable trait, whether engrossed solving word games, reading reputable news source or turning pages of spellbinding book galvanized mine attention ferrying thoughts away being figuratively hermetically sealed secluded, sedated, (albeit narcotic viz printed material), separated, segregated, sequestered, settled... away from madding crowd including kith and kin. Even as a darling little boy (naive and oblivious to sax and violins) ways and means sought to secure absolute zero interaction with others, I did employ getting ably linkedin with storied sixteenth president, (vis a vis time traveling thru enterprising seat of the pants experience whizzing to and fro, hither and yon at lightspeed helter skelter back and forth across space/time continuum punctuated qua grammatical equilibrium) spiritually invisibly convening with alluring American historical figure namely he who resided when elected commander in chief made popular the state of Illinois analogous to Star Trek becoming most favorite television show in equal parts courtesy William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy giving legendary Helen of Troy a run (with Paris) for her money. Poetry writing a medium to create embellishment concerning mine humdrum existence healthy development chokingly boxed maturation of body, mind and spirit stunted impossible mission to ameliorate indelible legacy vibrant potential abilities sabotaged webbed wide wakefulness smothered psychological travails wracked mein kampf schizoid personality disorder stymied inherited physical, mental and spiritual strengths, whereby bulk of living years populated by submissiveness. If born during an earlier era antedating first Industrial Revolution hypothetical fictitious me, would experience rural modus operandi as fitting, perhaps apprenticed (rustic accommodations accepted such as still found in Lake Wobegon) with respectable tradesman adept as printer, a clever literate playfully mischievous lad stealthily including personal editorials or opinions about difficult challenges regarding how very shy young man feels ill at ease when attempting to befriend a bonnie lass.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

A comment has not been posted for this poem. Encourage a poet by being the first to comment.


Book: Shattered Sighs