Text Me, a Monthly Poetry Group Post

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It's time for the Monthly Poetry Group, hosted by Karen at Baking in a Tornado.  Participants write a poem about a topic one of us chose.  This month, Diane chose Your Favorite Text.  Be sure to go check out all the poems.

Please note i chose to read "text" meaning "text message" not "textbook" or "text passage from a book."  If that's not what she meant, i'm sorry.

With my favorite texts from Bigger Girl, i wrote an introductory poem to some of her texts, which pretty well stand on their own and which i could not make rhyme if you paid me.

Bigger Girl was working

at a vet's office where they

sometimes found new homes for pets

whose owners moved away.

This one dog was a sweetheart,

only one thing wasn't right,

when the dog got too excited

it would turn and then play bite.

Bigger Girl worked with her

while they tried to find her a home,

but wasn't having any luck,

then i got this text tome:

Hey, mom, thought you'd like to know that the dog that was left at work has found a home.  

Our new handyman adopted her, and I'm kinda salty about it because I spent hours trying to train this dog not to play bite and it took his 4-year-old two seconds by biting back.

Now the little girl and dog are inseparable and I am happy but also miffed that a preschooler managed to train a dog that's so dumb she'd have to study for three days to pass a urine test!

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Bigger Girl was home to visit

and she had gotten sick,

we took her to a Doc-in-a-Box

where they get you seen pretty quick.

Turned out to be an ear infection

so a prescription she did need,

she told them which pharmacy

but they did not give heed.

About having to go much further

for her script, she texted me she did feel,

"[They] couldn't pour water out of a boot

with instructions on the heel!"

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Bigger Girl and a friend were driving

across much of the country,

California to Louisiana has

a lot of sights to see.

They stopped at several National Parks

and had a wonderful time,

but the fabulous text she sent me,

just can't be put in rhyme:

Mom, we were driving in canyons and the road slopes so badly I told my friend she better get us safely out of this area because I was not planning to die going over a cliff with my best friend in a mojito green Jeep!

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Bigger Girl had a job which

just was not working out,

she was doing lots of part-time work,

she never lies about.

She also keeps her mind sharp

by learning lots of new things,

and when she steps out to do stuff,

such twists and turns that brings:

Hey, mom, the dog dentistry place wasn't working out.  They had me doing mostly desk work and kept me at part time.

Found my current position by accident.

I'm now head pastry chef at The Swedish Club (brought cookies to the Swedish wood carving class and the head chef at the club hired me).

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And from Mr. J, Becca's dad:

I'd just arrived Sunday morning,

it was a bit before dawn

'cause Becca seems to get up

very early in the morn.

Mr. J leaves almost as soon as

i get over to the house,

i give Becca her breakfast,

he sneaks out like a mouse.

He sent me a text that morning

that said "Your lights are still on,"

i hurried out to turn them off

so my battery wouldn't be gone.

I sent a text to thank him,

i really was excited

when his answer soon came back

"Didn't want you to be de-lighted!"

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The other participants:

Karen at Baking in a Tornado     

Diane at On the Border     

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