Long Three strikes and you are out Poems

TO:  Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney

FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer

8/16/16

RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity

I don’t...

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Here we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming up in the bull pen.

Pitching for the Cats is Crazy...

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Opening Day with a Little Delay

Take me out to the ball game
 Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; 
 Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball;
 Foul balls, the pick off, intentional walk, the...

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Voting without aggravation...

Otherwise known as
absentee ballot/ mail-in ballot
if ye read no further... please exercise
opportunity to cast ballot
obviously freedom to choose,
but take serious stock of human bondage
(desperately calling out
for their Maugham me)
regarding: economy, integrity, monetary, xyz...

Anyway,...

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If we listen to the wind will we hear the call?
What of the years we spent “Back against the wall”

Years they come and they go “All is the same”
When you find yourself with a number...

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Rainy Day in Baseballland
Inspired by: Casey at the Bat

It was a rainy day in Baseballland
The players were home in bed
One rookie rolled over his eyelids a flutter
With dreams of a stand-up triple running through his...

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6/26/22


Easy or difficult to see right
Got rest with ease or a struggle to sleep at night
Always rude or someone that actually treats life
Like it's precious, regardless if others will never be nice
You're in the clear...

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You know
In my life
I have loved
And I have been loved
I have hated
And I have been hated
I have tried to kill
And I have had others try to kill me
I have lead others into addiction
And I have...

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After all of the hard hits

And you hitting the fake witch

And calling the sweet schoolteachers name

You feel the fires of  hell  and have the

Smell of urination and defecation

And you're tired from a beating

And...

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Once a felon always a felon, right?
Once an addict always an addict, right?
At least an addict can make the choice to leave their drug of choice alone, turn their lives around and make something of...

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I sing a song of three.
There’s Larry, Curly, Moe;
the Ego and the Id
and the Super Ego.

Three Kings of the Orient
are known as three wise men.
Showing up at Christmas too
in song are three French hens.

Rock, paper,...

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I am not a personal fan of jewelry, but
were I more careful, I would have been                   ...

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If I could touch you, would you back away?
If I had a voice to talk, 
Would you listen to the things have to say?
If I had the vision to see, would you look into my...

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It's "The Children's Hour," as Franklin Delano
dubbed it, proffering that famous profile, chin high,
cigarette holder clinched in good dental symmetry,
all the while flashing that celebrated smile.  He'd "Walk 
a Mile for a Camel," (or...

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I step up to the plate and the first pitch is tossed.
Strike one is called out, but I feel a little lost.
I see the audience but things are not as they seem.
They come and they...

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It was a little after three 
In the middle of the night 
When I stirred from my sleep
And got blinded by the light 
Three strikes and you’re out 
Was all this dude heard 
As a...

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Selling drugs, 
Trying to make a living, 
Behind bars, 
For someone elses using, 
Husseling and flowing, 
Trying to stay alive, 
The back up in bars, 
But soon they will be left behind, 
Beating the streets...

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Dear Dad,

im saying good bye to you since you dont care

im saying goodbye to you because honestly you just werent there

im tired of trying to win your affection

im tired of trying to have you in...

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Slow and steady will make you a loser, 
and the rabbit did kick that turtle’s ass.
Never work hard when you can play all day, 
and true love is never going to last.

Perhaps the emperor had...

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When I ask of you of the and when you don't comply for me;
 if you won't do cuz I will be given;
 and if not from you there are 20 others who will be;
it's...

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Thank you for cheating; thank you for lying
There are now less nights where I am crying

Thank you for leaving me behind 
And not making me think that you were really mine

Thank you for opening my...

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Three’s not the one but marks the start,
Well rounding up the winners’ chart.
It glorifies three musketeers,
It uplifts with three jolly cheers.

Three plus some – is quite entangled
Pertaining not to” love triangle” –
I dare to deem...

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One step, two traps
Three strikes, four stabs...

You’ve become the toilets of our lives
The annoyance at the end of our knives
A convenient offload like a couch in the middle of the road
The white lion evicted out...

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You stepped up to the plate
And you stole my heart
With our first kiss
You knocked it out of the park

Your first error came 
In the top of  the second
But I gave forgiveness
And considered it a...

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   ~~~~Let's Go Oakland!~~~

        Beat the Tampa Bay Rays!


50,000 fans heading your way to watch you play,
In this very exciting Wild Card Game.

There will be no...

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