Told to me by Dr. Bob Bryan, Mathematics, UWO, around 2003.

Mathematics answers are…
1. True
2. Relevant
3. Convincing to the reader.

There is soon to be a hole
In the quiet of good morning!
That others will unknowingly walk through.

There is soon to be a break
In the bones of routine
That others will just trip over.

There is soon to be a rip
In the fabric of friendship
That won’t likely mend.

Because I don’t know how to sew
Because I don’t know how to splint
Because I don’t know how to fill.

A randomness
An inviting into a space
An acquaintance
A trust
A colleague
A friend

Thank you

This is the way
Isn’t it

Good morning
Good Afternoon
Good evening
Good night
Good luck
Goodbye


Because I am a weirdo, I wrote this poem
maybe because I think cheesy sounds better
in prose that conversation. And I can’t cry in a poem lol!

There’s a hole
in my ear
where all your words go

There’s a hole
in my heart
where all your intentions just leaked out of

There’s a hole
in my mouth
where all my words start with Fu**!!!!!!!

—314per—nov07-2025

her philosophy has always been:

I’ll live my life as a party girl and go screaming into the afterlife chasing guys at full tilt.

So it is definitely a DNR situation.

—314per—sep26-2025

Goodnight Max

I wasn’t prepared
for how quiet
the world would be

or the house.

I want
one more night
small creaking stairs
plaintive calling int he dark
meandering
in and out of the room
his feline adhd

midnight reader

I slow blink
he’s
sitting in the doorway
looking
sitting at my feet
looking
sitting at my shoulder
looking

deeply through my eyelids
into the recesses
of my brain

best of dreams

goodbye Max.

—314per—aug31-2025

I wasn’t prepared
For how quiet
The world would be

Or the house would be

I want to sleep for one more night
With his presence in the house
small creaking stairs,
and plaintive calling in the dark,
Maybe lost, maybe lonely, maybe forgot
that this is night-time
when humans sleep,

maybe thinking this is
just another 60 minutes
in which cats prowl,

He walks into the room
He walks out of the room
Repeatedly throughout the night.
I learned to accept
To understand
His dark of night, dawn of light
Meanderings
In the house
IN his imagination
IN his feline adhd
lol!

At least he never
Scared the pants off me
As I slow blink in the night
By sitting on the doorway
Just staring
Sitting at my feet
Just staring
Sitting on my chest
Just staring
Deeply through my eyelids
Into the deep recesses
Of my brain.

—314per— aug30-2025

while the people have slumbered
all the breath has been crushed out of the earth

while the many have slumbered
the few have crushed all the breath out of the earth.

—314per— aug17-2025

I am actually
Really
Ok

It’s nice to think that
To feel the last bug sigh
To smile
As I look out the window

I can make changes
And they don’t need to be all or nothing
They can just for me
Just me

And I think perhaps I can be a better me
And maybe, I like me.

—314per—aug9-2025

we sat around the fire,
black
polkadot
northern sky
skidoos
cooling over there
small tilty chairs
legs sinking
into the ground
minds sinking
into the storyu
quick bark
of laughter
the kssht
of another opening can
with good
friends.

—314per aug6-2025

I sit at the bar with my phone
Oblivious to
Those that love and celebrate
Those that like and hope
Those that friend and still friend.

Loud over there
Quiet and still here

I have the kiwi mango sour
Oh, fine balance is good
I usually get them but I wondered
well they are usually pretty good

Oh, yes it is 🙂

Nice jacket!

Thanks

There’s gambling on the tv
And more people to watch being radio commentators behind the glass
stitch, twitch, switch?
No body is watching
lol!
Everybody is focused on their friends
absolutely spectacular !!!!

Four older people,
red and black checked over shirt,
black long sleeve,
grey button down…
talking very loud where were we last year lol!

Two guys in brown hoodie under jackets,
scruff, maybe a moustache, beanie for sure
Trying to be cool as two hetero men out for a beer on Valentines!!!!
Laughing too hard and slapping the bar top
“That’s soooooo funny ha ha”
You know, you can see it.

Singles, couples, friends, lovers
Two asking for Shirley temples
And there are no maraschino cherries for their drinks!
I am talking to the manager.

😉

The kitchen working like they have restless legs
The wait staff running like a marathon
Going gong going
The bar staff octopussing the taps and cans,

What a wonder full space
to be single
to be together
to be 🙂

Love it!

—-314per—feb14-2025