[stylist] This morning I awoke...

Sun Mar 23 18:24:20 UTC 2014

So would I, Mary Jo, says she who hardly ever posts herself. Lol

Myrna

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> On Mar 23, 2014, at 1:15 PM, "Jackie Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Mary-Jo,
> Thanks for the welcome back. I would love to see a posting from you again.
> Jackie 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mary-Jo Lord
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] This morning I awoke...
> 
> Hi Jacki,
> It's great to see you back. I don't post often, but I have always loved your
> work.
> 
> Mary-Jo
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie
> Williams
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 1:16 PM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] This morning I awoke...
> 
> 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 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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> Subject: Re: [stylist] This morning I awoke...
> 
> 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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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