My wife and I had triplets!
(Like. Heart)
I just had tapas in Barcelona!
(Like. Heart)
I love flowers!
(Like. Heart)
I cleaned my house today!
(Like. Heart)
Mandalas are cool!
(Like. Heart)
My cat cuffed up a hair ball.
(Like. Heart)
I ran the Boston marathon and came second!
(Like. Heart)
I love blueberry-Amaretto cheesecake.
(Like. Heart)
Our democracy is in peril.
(Like. Heart)
I was mugged on my way to Belize.
(Like. Heart)
I cannot afford healthcare.
(Like. Heart)
I do not like heart operations.
(Like. Heart)
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Fitting
Tic tac toe
Marigolds
Loose fitting dialysis
Pidgin toe
Skeptical
Aromatic bowling ball
Sheep ba baba-volleying hair ball
5/31/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
The marbled cat sat in the hall
a baleful eye on a marbled ball.
Not even that could lighten his mood
so he wandered off to find some food,
which he sniffed and licked and sniffed some more,
then sloughed his claws on the kitchen door,
then arched his back and gave a stretch
and coughed and hacked a hair ball wretch,
then licked his ass and licked his paws,
wiped his ears then a long, still pause,
as though an idea had entered his head,
then wandered off to find a nice, soft bed
to rest his bones for an hour or two,
for life is tiresome when there’s nothing to do
but lick and eat and stretch and all that,
when you’re a pampered, lazy, marmalade cat.
i am topsy
she is turvy
i'm an insy
but so is she
no doubt we're
without an outsy
plum dumb
down and out
so naturally we
panicked as she
tried to pull hers
to make it come
out i simply applied
my tweezer fingers
and discovered the
wonder of in by
picking out what
must have been
a relic maybe flannel
from the seventies
hair ball
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