Nursing Home Day Room Stories
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Lillian’s Echo
Lillian sat in the dayroom’s dim embrace—a survivor etched in time. The air clung to stories, whispered secrets, and the lingering scent of suffering. She, the one-character l...
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Categories:
nest egg, absence, addiction, anti bullying,
Form: Narrative
Blandishments eroded invaluable necessary viz life savings of mine videre licet alms
...och"
(pronounced ah-BROOKH)
before I cast accursed blatant spells
outright upon the head of mountebank,
whose shrewd and cunning deception
bled me dry as a sun bleached bone,
whereby self denigration and imploration
regarding immediate obliteration
of "nest egg" found me hurling vituperation
against the scoundrel,
whose art of the ruse playbook
scored psychological hit
pitching finances into dire straits
upon writer of these words,
whose mone...
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Categories:
nest egg, absence, america, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery
...Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery...
lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace,
where dark shadows eclipse edge of night
indistinguishable from the twilight zone.
Within the Int...
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Categories:
nest egg, analogy, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
tick-tock's bite
...Not the sort to default or beg
You halt lunch to earn a nest egg
Yet Trump’s tariff plan
Needs a Peter Pan
To stop the croc crunch on your leg...
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Categories:
nest egg, betrayal, business, class, money,
Form: Limerick
For some enchanted evenings
...For some enchanted evenings...
The following scenario imagined
after the hoopla of
Democratic National Convention miracle workers
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
trumpeted politically wholesome zea...
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Categories:
nest egg, america, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome
...ime of mine
the solution to upend
the demise of corporeal entity
plus doing away with attendant
emotional and financial toll
final expense insurance policies generate -
whereby unabated longevity
no longer a worry of the past,
but another padding to "nest egg"
recouping set aside monies
to cover the costs incurred
by the death of a loved one,
whether that person
gets buried in a cemetery or cremated
to be become forever vanquished
courte...
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Categories:
nest egg, age, appreciation, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse
Lillian
...Lillian's Echo
Lillian’s Echo
In the dayroom’s dim embrace, Lillian sat—a survivor etched in time. The air clung to stories, whispered secrets, and the lingering scent of suffering. She, the one-...
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Categories:
nest egg, absence, allegory, allusion, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter
...Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter
Entrapment videre licet fiendish
gnarly hustling scheme erector -
sent me to the poor house, where alms
not forthcoming to ease financial affli...
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Categories:
nest egg, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
More n nine months on
...More'n nine months on...
and still I feel infuriated at myself
concerning squandered funds
passively, senselessly, and willingly
surrendered nest egg
to computer hackers
(imposters, jackknifi...
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Categories:
nest egg, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Maid For The Ungrateful
...She's thirty-three, single,
her Mom babysits her
five year old son.
She reassures herself it's
just two more hours,
then it's the blessed weekend.
Which means delicious sleep.
She has no nest ...
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Categories:
nest egg, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
FROM SANTA CLAUS XMAS 2011
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written twelve years ago
when yours truly about two score
and twelve years old,
and fishy financial fiasco
about twenty six weeks
before being scalloped
courtesy villainous fraudster
otherw...
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Categories:
nest egg, 7th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
First Time
...The first time I saw you - there -
Sophisticated, warm-blooded,
And for a kiss, you blubbered -
Barbary lipped, presenting the bill.
If I'd snuggle up, you'd cover me in fur.
Coo-ee! A real l...
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Categories:
nest egg, abuse, adventure, animal, corruption,
Form: Ballad
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters
...Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters...
five months ago to the day
Twas the cusp of tooth thousand
twenty three summer solstice,
when yours truly (a fool
and his money went separate ...
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Categories:
nest egg, abuse, age, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Hanky Panky
...I feel just like that old grey squirrel,
whose belly is empty as can be.
He keeps on searching for those acorns,
but he has climbed up a maple tree.
He worked hard and long the whole darn yea...
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Categories:
nest egg, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
...Stricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courte...
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Categories:
nest egg, abuse, age, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme
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