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Department Store Blues

Audio Recordings / tagged Humor, Scent, Shopping / November 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I run the long gauntlet
of perfume counter aisles

Reaching men's wear I dare
my first breath
since leaving the street

Take my time picking up
and fondly fondling
warm winter socks

Should I buy two pair or three
two browns and a black
or to blacks and a brown

In no hurry
to begin the return journey
so recently reminded of why
I had been driven here
in the first place

The odor of the old pair

Happy Hour

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Butterflies, Humor, Migration / November 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All the monarchs pollen-drunk
are weaving their way to Mexico
with a final teasing loop or two
taunting that I can't come too

Little do their little brains know
That American and Southwest
fly direct from Austin now
and I can be a week
of margaritas awaiting their arrival

Growing Younger – Greece 2000

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Aging, Humor, Philosophy, Socrates, Wisdom / October 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing in front of the statues of the wise
noting how very wise they were
to be born at a ripe old age
and grow younger every year

Socrates for instance
(469-399)
certainly got it right
being born at seventy
and working backwards
to that point of light

Hyperbowling

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Exageration, Expression, Humor, Hyperbole / October 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

With thanks to Pat Love for the 🎳!!!!! emoji

Good Advice

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Country Music, Humor, Wisdom / May 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Whenever anything got broke or lost
Kim's mother would say:
Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you

Which is a good thing to remember
when your life becomes a country song
and your dog and your wife and your truck are gone
Your dog will miss you right away and cry with the coyotes all the night
your wife will miss you later - maybe and cry for all the coulda's that might

buy you're sadly mistaken
if you think that old C-10 Chevy
following the repo truck down the lane
is going to miss you half as much as you miss it

Advice

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Humor / May 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Here's a tool box filled with tools

Good sense and good advice
on diet, exercise, and such
which I find that I seldom use

so I'm passing them on to you

Marhesha’s Dream

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Adversity, Dreams, Humor, Learning / May 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

She opens a door
into a huge domed stadium filled with men
women and children, in costumes of all the ages
She knows that they are all there for her
to set up any drama at any time
to learn any lesson she needs to learn

She closes the door
and walks down the corridor

Another door to a storage closet
Inside big barrels labeled
"Plot Thickner"

Clothes

Audio Recordings / tagged God, Humor, Knowledge, Nudity / April 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It's true the emperor has no clothes
but what does God wear

Born in his image might be a clue
though hardly a power suit it's true

And since he knows and sees all
seems reasonable we will as well

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Fairies in the Garden

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / tagged Humor, Wash Day / April 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fairies in the Garden
when the day is new

Washing their undies
in the dew

Faith in the Afterlife

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / tagged Faith, Humor / April 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Faith in the Afterlife

Burial suit
with two pairs of pants

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