Wait. To you, she's “La Lopez”. To me, “Jen”, always.
Doyenne of “Anaconda”. A date, indeed!
You’d have me narrate the gravamen,
say how it was? She was a ten. Great, she seemed.
Or perhaps an eight. But never again!
Well, she doesn’t like real men. Cheapskate, too.
I’ll tell you straight, it all went bandy when,
as our train pulled out of Penn, to celebrate ‘us’,
she called her lawyer. I hate zen precepts,
but marriage? With no debate? Comedienne!
Glenn Campbell sang of Wichita
Trini Lopez of Kansas City
Otis Redding crooned of Sausalito, CA
Sittin’ on the dock of a bay
Chicago was Sinatra’s kind of town
He belted out the refrain
Guthrie’s ‘City of New Orleans’
Turned out be an Illinois train
So why don’t they sing of Annapolis!
It rhymes with Minneapolis and Indianapolis
And fifty-four astronauts graduated the Naval Academy
~ Updating ‘Anchors Aweigh’ would gladden me
Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Jaier Bolsonaro'
You stand out, uniquely, from the political herd
Lickspittles by choice, and from others deffered.'
Others who louse-like cluster and croon
Who mutter in pryoxams, in the fidget of doom
In spasms in contortions, in Masks of despair
Speilers and screamers from iniquity concurred
Scwabing the poop-deck of a ruinous scow
Leaders so lost; are now wallowing as sows,
In a mire in amaze, I see no good; from them
No way; and no-how.'
Just like a weasel living life as a scavenge
I’m sure just like he it’s not as he would have planned it
And with patrol shifts going out to all the giants and talls
They sure use their big britches to control us their fellow smalls
I’ve educated my self in history of war and treaties
Why it’s unhumbling to see history just repeating
Down at my hands now old ones new
The choices I’ve made created their lines and grooves
Smack dab out of the toxicity
Dropping and falling repeatedly and repeatedly
And when I hit the grounds bottom
I bounce back right up to the top
And there’s no time to get your footing stuck on such
Because around around the wheel continues and turns
Its only at your end your allowed to get off
Stacy Lopez
12/12/21
Two men walk down a dusty street
in Winslow, Arizona.
One places small white crosses
at the curb and recites names
while the other bears witness:
"Juan Fernando Lopez”
“Presente!”
“Maria Anna Ramos”
“Presente!”
“Jose Angel Fernandez”
“Presente!”
“Restos mortales” (Mortal remains)
“Presente!”
This continues until
that day’s accounting
of bodies found in the desert
is complete.
Happy birthday, Brother Angel,
Movie scene features an extra;
The viewers love every angle
Of the director's camera.
Topic: Birthday of Angelito Lopez (March 24)
Helen Reddy, Cher, Bette Midler, Tina and Reba have all inspired me
Showing me women can be more than I thought women could be.
I am inspired by Adam Lambert and his predecessor Freddy Mercury.
They are both not afraid to live their lives, and be all that they can be.
Inspired by singers, dancers, Jennifer Lopez, and friends who live their chi.
Every child I have ever met, which is a lot of children, has inspired me.
My mother and aunts who showed me strength at their knowing knee.
Everyone I know including dad, in-laws and husband have inspired me.
J-oyful
O-pus
E-mploys
Y-early
L-etter
O-f
P-oetic
E-xpression
Z-estfully
Topic: Birthday of Joey Lopez (January 11)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
E-liminate
M-orbidity's
A-trocious
L-ink
O-bliterating
P-andemic's
E-eriness
Z-one
Topic: Birthday of Ema Lopez (June 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-eopardy zone in contagion
O-nerously carries rabidity;
N-astiness and eeriness
A-im to spread morbidity.
L-ethality and gruesomeness
O-f the hazard have grown;
P-lague, pestilence, , and pandemic
E-merge in jeopardy
Z-one.
Topic: Birthday of Jona A. Lopez (June 11)
F-antastic
E-xpression
L-ets
E-xcellent
M-essage
J-ust
O-ffer
Y-early
L-ines
O-nce
P-oem
E-mploys
Z-est
Topic: Birthday of Felem Joy B. Lopez (November 30)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A-uthor's
N-atal
G-reetings
E-xecutes
L-ines
I-n
T-ruthfulness
O-nce
L-itterateur
O-f
P-oem
E-mploys
Z-est
Topic: Birthday of Angelito Lopez (March 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
D-edication
O-f
O-ne
D-ynamic
Z-ealous
L-eader
O-perates
P-ropagation's
E-vangelism
Z-one
Topic: Birthday of Bro. Doodz A. Lopez, Jr (March 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
G-reeter
A-pplies
U-plifting
D-octrine's
E-difying
N-ote
C-onveying
I-mportance
O-f
L-esson
O-n
P-reacher's
E-vangelism
Z-one
Topic: Birthday of Bro. Gaudencio A. Lopez, Jr (March 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
L-et
I-nspiring
E-xpression
Z-estfully
E-mploy
L-ovely
L-ines
O-f
P-oem's
E-uphoria
Z-one
Topic: Birthday of Liezel Lopez (March 06)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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