connection PAD 3-1

 Well-forged

 

We lay under a shade tree in cool moss

on a hot summer evening

No boy-girl thing, just friends

 

Comfortable, talking about everything

Enjoying our connection

Well-forged over the years

B Movie PAD 2-2

 

My Nineteenth Birthday

 

Celebrating my nineteenth birthday

My mom invited my best friend and the boy next door

 

After eating lasagna and cake

We took a walk on the moonlit night up Wild Cat Road

 

The guy knew his way around the woods

We walked together, talking and laughing all the while

 

At one point we were way off the road

We came upon a building lit up with a street light

 

We had wound up at the State Game Lands

He tried to make us think we weren’t supposed to be there

 

He started running and we ran too

He laughed, thinking he had fooled us into worrying

 

We were just trying to catch up

We knew his B Movie story lines when we heard them

B Movie PAD 2-1

 B Movie

 

Breaking up is hard

After a year and two months

And my first true love

 

The boy next door said,

“You talk as if someone died”

To me it was a death

 

To my surprise, he

Wanted to date me again

Seemed out of the blue

 

Would be a B film

After the feature movie

I broke it gently

 

You’re like my brother

We’ve been that way since

misheard lyrics Poetic Bloomings

 

Later On, We’ll Perspire

 

Of all the Christmas songs

I heard as a child,

perspiring by the fire

made sense,

but it didn’t

sound romantic

to me.

 

Foolish PAD 1-3

 

Blue Pizza

 

Two friends and I, we met next door.

Each week his parents would retreat.

We’d watch TV and cook and eat.

One time, we did a little more.

We got food dye Mom had in store,

And put it in the pizza dough.

Blue pizza’s quite the thing, you know.

We left some pizza for his folks.

They often laughed at his dumb jokes.

They shrieked, we smiled and watched our show.

foolish PAD 1-2

 Skunked

 

While trapping, he got sprayed by a skunk.

At the bus stop, we could smell it.

He left his jacket behind.

At school, students parted

Just like the Red Sea.

He was sent home

That morning,

Nicknamed

Skunk!

Foolish PAD 1-1

 

The Boy Next Door

 

He had a weird light-bulb shaped head.

We were play mates since I was four.

We rode our trikes on wooded paths.

That silly, goofy boy next door.

 

We girls avoided him like plague.  

With almost nothing to adore.

Oh, what a pest he had become!

That silly, goofy boy next door.

 

A teenager, funny and smart

Cute and tall at six foot four.

I though he might not be so bad.

That silly, goofy boy next door.

 

I bet a kiss on game of HORSE.

Of course, I had the lowest score.

He’s not the only fool that day,

That silly, goofy boy next door.