Library Blues

Popular books, all

Coming due at the same time—

Unsolved mysteries.

Skat@2022

Distracted

I’m in another

Headspace at this current time;

I’ll be back someday!

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Am I?

Sometimes I have this

strange feeling I’m repeating

myself here. Sometimes …

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My mother

She had a saying

for every occasion, like

that, “Who’s like you since

Leatherarse died?” Wait! Maybe

that was one of my father’s . 😉

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Today my mom would have been 93; she had about as many sayings as that too. 😂

Drawing a blank

Sitting here, trying

hard to write a little gem.

Nope. I “got nothing“.

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Mi duilich

Sorry for absence

Scottish Gàidhlig’s over-taken …

Brain activity

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Nyet, nyet Soviet*

If we can’t stop the

bald despotic Putin, can

we at very least

Cut off his coffers? (Yes, that’s

a euphemism.)

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*In the 1980s, a Canadian musician wrote this song. The lyrics popped into my head while composing this tanka.

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/B-B-Gabor/Nyet-Nyet-Soviet-Soviet-Jewelry

Shadorma #63 Killer Queen

When all else

fails to soothe me, I

lose myself

in the old

placid murder mysteries

of Dame Agatha.

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Gibberish

Long restless night; I’m

stringing words together wrong.

My apologies.

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Tale of Mystery

Christie yarn based on

a rhyme—I’m recalling my

Old Mother Goose book.

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