Abandoned

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists...

And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
...

and despite remote chance
to channel small medium at large
metamorphosis I may witness...

You think you know me...?
But I know you don't know me at all...
In fact you never have had a...

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western...

Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –...

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a...

What do you see when you look at me...?
The fool that has come to be...
Will you ever declare...

When, Where & how does it all start...?
These feelings that tore my soul apart...
Wanting...

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken...

I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe...

In an old house, so long abandoned
Blue paintings hang, all disenchanted

Once they were...

Lobbed and unleashed upon the heads
of (yours truly and the missus)
so called selfish "...

IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and...

buoyed me aloft beyond
outer limits of the twilight zone
where dark shadows
lurked...

our sixth anniversary at Highland Manor Apartments
friendliness ofttimes prompts me
when...