why did the tea kettle whistle?
I take cold tap water
heat applied
rolling bubbles
hissing
weak turbulence
molecules escape
into gas phase
pressure inside rises
above atmospheric pressure
steam accelerates
into a high-speed jet
interacts with surrounding air
and the edges of the whistle
alternating regions
of higher and lower pressure
again
and again
the whistle
a cavity
at a particular
resonant frequency
air inside the chamber
begins oscillating
sound wave modifies
airflow through the opening
altered airflow produces
another pressure fluctuation
reinforces the sound wave
alters airflow
feedback loop
frequency determined
by geometry
chamber
opening
air column
not simply
how hot the water is
perhaps best explained
I turned on the burner
water got hot
steam came out
the whistle blew
why do I have incurable cancer?
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It all ends here
Not there here
Where? Here
Now come over here
Give it here
Your beer, not there, here
I will stand here
Drink the beer, with you here
So, you can witness me here
Drink the beer here
And tell your friends I gulped the beer here
And without fear here
We will graduate from here
Smarter since we were here
Drinking our beer here
Getting degrees here
Not there, here
At dinner today,
My Mommy and
My Daddy
Were being weird
Instead of them
Usually being tired,
They smiled a lot
Too Smiley
And also
My Daddy made
The food today
Mommy is supposed to make the food
The food didn’t taste yummy
The food tastes yummy always
Mommy and Daddy
Are starting to be
Kinda
Sorta
Just a little
Scary
At night
When I got up
To tell them
I had a nightmare
They were not asleep
Mommy was just
Sitting on the couch
Wide awake
Daddy was smiley again
Too Smiley
Daddy and Mommy
Are starting to be
Kinda
Sorta
Super Duper
Scary
I don’t think
That Mommy
And Daddy
Are the right ones anymore
I saw them pouring
Saltwater on my
Flowers
The ones I got from Mommy
I’m scared
This Mommy
And this Daddy
Are not my
Beautiful
Mommy
Kind
Daddy
Where did they go?
Where Did They Go?
WHERE DID THEY GO?
I want them back
There was a time when I truly thought you stole,
everything from me
The intense pain reached deeper than anything imaginable
There were so many losses
There were so many lies
There was so much that I couldn't do anything about,
as you went on and on with hurricanes of manipulation and control
It took a long time to learn that this would never change
It took a long time to learn to find my own peace
It took years to overcome the baragment of guilt you put upon me
But I am here now and I will never go back
I see everything that I have, everything I am grateful for
I didn't need you to do a thing; I did it all myself
9/12/26
Heidi Sands
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A hydro engine, Myer made'
It put car makers in the shade.
He was soon to die
Cause filed, vauge suspected.'
Just a ( stroke of bad luck.?)
Or murder directed.?
What did you do?
Acting cool
Making VIP alpha list
Curling a fist?
Scan word floor
You may find four
Sounding good
As writings should
So, summon 'a,i,o,u'
Hush, 'I am not through'
Using this writing tool
Pointing out fools
Swimming in soup pool
Starting buzz
With its warming fuzz
Hail king
Only thing
That will sing
Following 'A', in command
Major B, who has a plan
To find a way out of this jam
My young child, I bid you good night
Now go to your room and light
Your fantasy story sight
Taking you far
Lapping any shooting star
I never thought it would be this way.
Me, lying in somebody's arms,
thinking," Wow... how did i come this
far ? "
Lying here ,immagining A world where im
free
Waiting for life to simply be .
Not Caring what people think or say,
Because maybe its suppose to be this way .
You can call me insane.
For all I care , i've allways lived in pain , so just let me enjoy this happy rain .
Maybe this isn't the end
Maybe its a moment where I can be free
With no limits to ecstasy,
A moment filled with dreams and memories.
Today could be the best day of your life.
I wouldn't know.
I wish it still mattered to me.
They spoke of lines
I did not see any
Oh, those blue ones?
Ha!
By the time I noticed them, my masterpiece was finished
I heard the last bit of the teacher’s instruction
“outside of the box”
I looked around but saw no box
I saw a dragon, elf, faerie, and VW bus
A mushroom came alive and flashed me with her round bottom
Words came rushing by
I snatched a few of them
They laughed and giggled
One of them kicked my finger hard
They would have their way; I was their puppet master
I am an artist, cartoonist, and poet
No one can advise me
I lean into my own truths
Listening to my spirit guides
They swarm me with ideas, and cannot be thwarted or stopped
They cannot be slowed down or discouraged
I am an artist; I am who I am who I am
MONEY WAS NO GOOD
PIERRE A WIN THOUGHT HE WOULD
LOSER NEIGHBOURHOOD
Meg, rainbow mermaid girl of the Aegean Sea
Do you remember little ole me?
I was the one you saved one day in May
You pushed a shark out of the way
I thought I was a goner but there you were
all rainbow bright, young, innocent and pure
I wonder sometimes if I dreamed this up, Meg
Then I look at the shark bite on my leg
I know, I did not
That the future is certain
Know if I would be there
I know, I did not
That the sun shall rise
Know if it would shine on me
I know I did not
That the world is full of smiles and tears
Know which mine would be full of
I know I did not
That there is paradise and hell
Know where am headed towards
Did I shoo a child away today
much as I’d shoo a fly
Or was it my wife who said hello
~ that I’ve just turned to goodbye
What business had you here,
a child strayed into adulthood,
with feelings still sincere,
transparent as you stood.
What gave you the idea
to abandon sweet childhood,
leaving your dovecote
behind?
For what,
What did you expect to find?
Are you very disillusioned
with life now, my belle?
Regret having elisioned
skipping youth’s vow / well,
this is the way life is, wizened;
your childhood heaven, an adult hell.
It’s very mysterious,
be kind,
I’m curious,
What did you expect to find?
How did we lose
the Straits of Hormuz
We listened to Saudi Arabia
A country all sand
struck up the band
‘Twas jealous of Mesopotamia*
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*Mesopotamia, today Iran and Iraq,
was home to the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers, through which flowed interna-
tional commerce back then.
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