[stylist] This morning I awoke...

Sun Mar 23 17:15:37 UTC 2014

Myrna,
I truly appreciate your comments, fellow poet. I have always enjoyed your
work. 
This poem will most likely, not ever be published. It is a bit off the wall
and quite long. So more of that kind may keep coming!
It is fun being back, but do not know for how long
Jackie 

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Myrna
Badgerow
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:05 AM
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I'm with Lynda! It is so good to see you here again, Jackie. And your poem?
I loved it!  I have learned not to include 'widowed' in my profile.  It puts
a huge bulls-eye on your whatever. Lol I just say 'single'. Lol
Just loved this though!
Myrna

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> On Mar 23, 2014, at 7:17 AM, "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
wrote:
> 
> Hi Jackie! So wonderful to see you back here and read your work again! I
just loved this poem - Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Williams"
<jackieleepoet at cox.net>
> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 8:28 PM
> Subject: [stylist] This morning I awoke...
> 
> 
>> It seems I cannot make an attachment in order to keep the format. So I
will
>> cut and paste, the devil take the hindmost.
>> Jackie
>> Your
>> prompt.
>> 
>> This morning I awoke to find-
>> deluge of e-mails from the blind.
>> A month ago, I promised to
>> come back again and thus renew
>> the inspiration from this list.
>> Well, anyway, you get the gist.
>> 
>> I have a morning to devote
>> to answering, and sugar-coat
>> responses to what came as shock
>> that none of you have writer's block!
>> I'm old and white, close to decay,
>> but listen up , I'll have my say.
>> 
>> Three hundred! Please, a strategy.
>> I'll answer all with poetry.
>> You wonder, should you say impaired
>> in case the "cons" leave you ensnared?
>> While I agree with Lynda here-
>> "Blind" dating is another sphere.
>> 
>> My Poem. Don't take this too literally, but usually there are a few true
>> things in my poetry. I lie a lot and like to have fun, and challenge the
>> more accepted ideas. But if you go the speed dating route, you do not
have
>> to deceive by omission. I have not, but would have liked to.
>> Jackie
>> 
>> The Four-minute Speed-dating "Me Too" Man
>> 
>> I contacted the organization with trepidation.
>> In my early eighties, I still liked older men.
>> I knew the pitfalls after falling in most of them.
>> I also knew women made their choice of partners
>> within the first 30 seconds and might choose
>> a serial killer based on his pheromones.
>> 
>> I studied the statistics before this revolving event.
>> I would sit, and every four minutes, a new man
>> would appear. I knew, also, men were more
>> selective if they did not have to move. Besides,
>> I was nearly blind and hard-of-hearing. I might not
>> be able to get up and find the next man's table.
>> 
>> Let's see-10% relate to movies, 17% to travel.
>> Most relate to sports. Forget them. Religion, smoking,
>> previous marriages do not hold sway as against
>> that first four-second attraction. Now I am smart.
>> I can ignore my subconscious that goes for con men.
>> The bell, the bell! Here comes a short, slightly stooped man.
>> 
>> I'm no dummy. I had prepared my quirky, unusual
>> questions. In a rush I blurted, "I am a Democrat,
>> a flaming liberal, and I love Obama."
>> He took so long to answer that I blurted again,
>> "I don't smoke, I have been married only once. He died."
>> Another silence, a groan. The bell rang.
>> I have no romantic spark for this strange man.
>> 
>> There were not many in the seventy to ninety age group.
>> Next a man strode over, leaned down, kissed my hand.
>> He sat, proclaimed, "I am a conservative, a Republican,
>> I love Rush Limbaugh. We must make Obama fail."
>> I did not know what to say for fully two minutes. He followed,
>> " I smoke, drink now and then, have been married three times."
>> Saved by the bell. I am not asking questions. Get with it, girl.
>> 
>> The next man slipped quietly into the chair, said, "God Bless You."
>> I answered, "Why should he, Sir? I am a skeptic." We sat there
>> awkwardly for fully three minutes without making a sound.
>> Finally, here he came. The last man in this revolving group.
>> He bumped the chair, finally sat, and reached for my hand.
>> The touch, the sound of his deep voice turned loose a spark.
>> 
>> Gently he asked, "Will you speak clearly. I am hard-of-hearing."
>> In rapt adoration, I said, "I think it would be wonderful to stand
>> on The Great Wall of China with you." "Me too," he replied.
>> "I have always wanted to climb to Machu Pichu on The Old Incan Trail."
>> "Me too," he said, moving to sit beside me-against the rules.
>> We had trouble untangling our arms when the bell rang.
>> 
>> I struggled to get my name on his list. Now I had to wait.
>> Finally, after two days, I got his call-
>> felt a thrill I had not known since I was seventy-eight.
>> The grandson of his third marriage took us to IMAX
>> to walk The Great Wall of China, to climb The Old Incan Trail.
>> We sit side-by-side on our double chaise lounge in front of a 60-inch
>> television while We drink Manhattans straight up with ice on the side.
>> 
>> We first watch Fox news for him. I slowly run my fingertips
>> up and down his inner arm. As he turns to MSNBC for me,
>> he kisses the sweet spot on my neck, then CNN to cool us down.
>> Sundays, he watches a bit of football, listens to a bible tape.
>> I struggle with a poem or make blueberry pancakes.
>> 
>> As we melt into each other's lives,
>> I say to him, "I have found the most loving friendship
>> I have ever known." He says, "Me too."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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