Garden Apartment Redemption
...I solemnly received my first toilet auger
As if it were a knight’s well-tempered sword.
It meant I’d passed my ninety-day audition,
And seemed to me a suitable reward.
And so began my tenure wo...
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Categories:
skivvy, allegory, work,
Form: Burlesque
Just Wondering Is All
...I must have been maybe five or six,
When our Dad decided to pull up sticks
He left our house, why? I'll never know,
'Twas said to another life he had to go.
Looking back on my life, I feel so d...
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Categories:
skivvy, dad, emotions, family, mom,
Form: Light Verse
The Wife
...My wife says things to me
Assuming my minds orderly
I pretend I don't listen
She can clean her own Nissan
And stop treating me like her skivvy...
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Categories:
skivvy, wife,
Form: Limerick
Vignette-A Kitchen Skivvy
...A simple French Carmelite monk
Into a most menial role he sunk,
A singular byway of life he trod,
Often alone and on his tod-
Practicing the presence of God.
Tribute to Brother Lawrence....
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Categories:
skivvy, devotion, faith, people,
Form: Narrative
The Vigil Vindicator
...A blizzardery blitz. white spotted morning.
A score plus five.
Nay, nay, nay, tis nay that came from his blundering mouth.
A child entering.
Falling in a gust of wind.
An appearance as small as...
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Categories:
skivvy, friendship, imagination, life,
Form: I do not know?