(2015)
I enjoy his company Riding shotgun Conversation No one to overhear Our inside jokes
I don’t expect Diabetes education For the public But chances are You know one
My poems are short Written at night In my head I wake at dawn Shake my memory
It’s not pretty When I cry People get almost as embarrassed as I
If I was in a beauty pageant My talent would be 'Lefty who writes upside-down’ Beside the contestant Who burps her ABC’s
I’m watching a woman in a bikini In great shape with a swollen bell… Play with her puppy named Gatsby A Hispanic family comes The little girl dips her feet in
I will be Forever in debt To my mother Any gift Would come up short
A joke Lost in Translation You will Never
The human heart ...leaps and jumps ...races and sings ...sighs and groans The treacherous heart can
Hillary’s beautiful Rose Bumpy’s favorite princess My mini-me, my little lion Cute button nose Framed by red hair
Well-intentioned stranger Eyeing me limp through HEB Why would you ask If I stepped on a nail? How do you know
I struggle to Keep it together Maxims and mottoes On repeat In my mind
Didn’t they know that people cared? That they were loved? Why didn’t someone tell them?
Are you ever tired Of just being you? Did you ever Want to be Someone new?
Left on a leash Is no way to live He disappeared I like to imagine He’s running in a field