blue men pool men

their hair royal blue
professional tennis match
heads turning left right

staring for hours
quite a sight in bright sunlight
three guys and a girl

the two blue men group
lotion on each other’s backs
dive and jump in pool

why are yall staring
peer not at your peers so long
take a chill pill man

are you wondering
chlorination’s reaction
water blue enough

party of four
having wonderful time in pool
colorful floating

radiant floats
blue sea blue pool and blue men
negating your blues

next day asking golf
cart if he had seen blue hair
just at that second

coming around corner
bob asked how i did that
bluer and bluest

moral or punchline
before entering army
dye your hair royal blue

your boyfriend also
bring younger looking parents
come here for a week

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i’m so dumb i thought
they were part of blue men group
feared they would lose blue

aunt sis hopkins

why my father called her sis hopkins, i don’t know.my grandmother called her vaccinated with a phonograph needle.
i called her aunt semmie.
she left 600,000 .00 to each of her 5 sisters & brothers or their family,which turned out to be, 10 nieces & nephews.

the funny part begins: she drove a pontiac i am in a photo with , when i was 7 & she had the same car 30 years later.she left my brother , my sister & i 200,000 each.she had to have at least 6 million dollars, before taxes were taken out at 55% .i think it was because my father bought her stock, because she couldn’t have made that workng at mr. shirt with him: This was his hobby. he retired when i was one & took me to the stock market every day for a year, but then bought a men’s shirt store.

one day i asked aunt semmie when she was 83 , why she didn’t buy a dishwasher? my father bought my grandmother this house many years before i was born & aunt semmie’s husband died before i was born, so she lived there.it was apparently built before dishwasher & washers & dryers. every sunday after shoneys or ihop, sunday school, wendy’s or hardees , my father & i went to visit.i walked across the street with her to the laundromat and asked why she didn’t have a washer then , but years later i found out you can wire the house for these things.
so i ask the question again & she said miss worry, “don’t you think if i wanted one i would buy one”.
NO i don’t.shortly after this question, a brain tumor from cigarettes caused her to leave over 6 million dollars to her nieces & nephews.

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“All Blues”

“sea and sky and you
and I all blues,some blues
are sad some are glad”.