My first commision

 December 2023: Susan likes my art enough to ask me to make her some notes. I'm touched. 

We set few parameters. Few. Yaay.

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I might have ADHD. I might also think it's too late to bother. It's not getting in the way. And then, Erica offered a term she had recently encountered. 

Multipotentialite

https://puttylike.com/living-the-good-life-as-a-multipotentialite-with-adhd/

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On another note I still have stuff. What to do?

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David L White

PO Box 142

Greendale, WI 53129

PandaLoon, a 4x7”, 16 page, pocket poetry chapbook.
Good while supplies last. Ask first DoHappyBetter@gmail.com

Tommy Tree Note

In my print shop I was running an A.B. Dick 360, single color press. Technically, according to the government, a duplicator.

As I worked with QuarkXPress and Adobe Illustrator, I wondered if I could create and print a couple cartoons, one color at a time; CMYK.

The Apple LaserWriter IINT was a black toner, 300 dpi, printer of the era. Big dots. Sunday paper cartoon dots.

This was before color laser printers and inkjet.

The experiment was about holding registration between color runs. I was happy enough.

A moment.

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Merry Christmas 2023

 

Gold Vase

 

Vases Faces

 

Color Family

 This was a surprise to me. Pleasant.

Crop Matte: 1 and 2

 It seems that flat art get a boost when a frame or matte appears. What's next?

Ridiqulux

Ridiqulux

Naming poems 

as if they were 

the latest drug. 

Ridiqulux 

Love,

Doctor on Duty

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Words of comfort

 Words of comfort ... real comfort ... are words.

Three brand new poems that have nothing to do with the season. I say Merry Christmas at the end of the audio. That's it. Merry Christmas.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Merry Christmas Three brand new poems that have nothing to do with the season. I say Merry Christmas at the end of the audio. That's it. Merry Christmas. David L White Dec 20   READ IN APP   Listen now · 3:35 As much as I’d love to finish this poem,  I’ve got work to do in the railyard,  and a long train is coming. I’ve seen the poster. I printed it. Really. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Peanuts, popcorn, and penny poems Dedicated to Doctor TOM Suppose for a moment  that your life and times are represented as a circus train Suppose, I mean imagine, souls flocking to see your act in the park, near the tracks Suppose I’ve seen the poster,  announcing the date of your arrival  in my own home town Suppose I’m already practicing my  maneuvers as a sword swallowing,  clown car, hippo on trapeze  You are moving through, of course,  and I’m running away … without you  Away … without. I preposition* you. … Copyright David L White 12/15/23 . 6:30 am ... ... ... Those other two poems I mentioned. Sometimes the  morning snuggle is me  getting up to write  a chunk of poem,  and you falling  back asleep I came back.  With a poem. That’s how I know.  DLWhite 12/15/23 …. The poetry is the dead bits of life,  stuck on a window screen after  years of breeze.  Spider shit, mosquito wings, fly balls,  and a lightning bug that flicked on and off, for quite awhile, if you can even believe.  But there it is  stuck in the screen  chunks from the breeze.  … DLWhite 12/15/23 … .. Sparkle Rock Talk I was going to take some stones (sparkle rocks) out to the Fox River near the library in Waterford. Set them free. They winked at me. Soon I spied the worm hole; the rabbit hole. I splooched them into the soup for a good simmer. Thank you for visiting and taking some time for your self. Pledge your support   Like Comment Restack   © 2023 David L White 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe

PandaLoon

PandaLoon; a playful wailing of pocket poetry. Retyped, in a time before email, sixteen pages, 4x7", vellum cover, hand assembled, and mailed worldwide. 

My love, an unsustainable success.

Published by Small Potatoes Press by David L White Milwaukee WI at the end of the 20th century.

I'm thinking of promoting swap and share tables at local libraries featuring local poets that may also have chapbooks in their closets. April is National Poetry Month. I'd rather have readers than dollars. There's time to prepare.

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David L White . 414-282-7185

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Meat and Teeth

While playing hide and seek in a disco house of mirrors, a fog rolls in. We proceed with abandon, oregano, and cinnamon. Meat and teeth with a hint of what the hell.

Yes, I pick up sparkle rocks sometimes. I'm minding my own business, cleaning out my life, if only to make more room on deck, and some of the rocks took a form. They said hello. I photo snapped them quickly with little regard to composition and lighting.

They were pleased. They'd never gathered together like this.

I had been thinking of taking them on a picnic at the Fox River in Waterford and releasing them back into the stream. And off my table bench space.

Nope. Not now yet. They glint and wink at me. The limelight becomes them.

What becomes you? Perhaps you might jot some recipes in your cookbook life.

Dedicated to Doctor TOM

 

I woke up with three brand new poems this morning. This first one is for you, Doctor TOM

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As much as I’d love to finish this poem, 

I’ve got work to do in the railyard, 

and a long train is coming.

I’ve seen the poster.

I printed it.

Really.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Peanuts, popcorn, and penny poems

Dedicated to Doctor TOM

Suppose for a moment 

that your life and times are

represented as a circus train

Suppose, I mean imagine,

souls flocking to see your act

in the park, near the tracks

Suppose I’ve seen the poster, 

announcing the date of your arrival 

in my own home town

Suppose I’m already practicing my 

maneuvers as a sword swallowing, 

clown car, hippo on trapeze 

You are moving through, of course, 

and I’m running away without you 

Away … without. I preposition* you.

…

Copyright David L White

12/15/23 . 6:30 am

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...

...

Those other two poems I mentioned.

Sometimes the 

morning snuggle is me 

getting up to write 

a chunk of poem, 

and you falling 

back asleep

I came back. 

With a poem.

That’s how I know. 

DLWhite

12/15/23

….

The poetry is the dead bits of life, 

stuck on a window screen after 

years of breeze. 

Spider shit, mosquito wings, fly balls, 

and a lightning bug that flicked on and off,

for quite awhile, if you can even believe. 

But there it is 

stuck in the screen 

chunks from the breeze. 

…

DLWhite

12/15/23

…

*preposition

Thanks to 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preposition

What is an example of a preposition?

The most common prepositions are at, by, for, from, in, of, on, to, and with. Other common prepositions are about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, close to, down, during, except, inside, instead of, into, like, near, off, on top of, onto, out of, outside, over, past, since, through, toward, under, until, up, upon, within, without.