Long johns

Bursa is low, buy long johns, winter will be cold. Copyright (c) Marie Neumann 9/28/2015

Laundry 2

It was a promising Monday morning, so I hanged our laundry on the cloth line in the backyard. Then came rain. I guess I didn't wash it properly. Copyright © Marie Neumann 5/18/2015

Ignorance

I pull a plow each Spring in the same fields. This is what I know. I drag a harrow from the beginning of the field to the end and back. I also wear flaps over my eyes, when we go to town, because I am afraid of heavy traffic. Cars are speeding on the left and right. It's better to do not know, how fast they go. Ignorance is such bliss Copyright © Marie Neumann 5/15/15 POW! assignment

Computers

A little book was published. Our two computers broke down. It must be a jealousy, I think. Don't be silly, computers are just machines. They don't have feelings and don't think. A repair man is going to explain to you, what happened in technical terms. Computers are working again. For how long? I hate to ask. "You break each computer I am giving to you." I know. They are worse than shoes. I break down a pair about each year. "You have to see what is behind." "O.k., you see it, it's your task." Copyright (c) Marie Neumann February 2015, Pottsville

Rock

Rock-n-roll group is performing on the Town Square of New York City. Hard rock is rolling, music vibrates, echoes from the buildings, drums shoot their decibels to the skies and fall back down. Noise is deafening. After the concert people leave the square, half of them lost temporarily their hearing, it is night and they are looking, where they parked their cars. Wearing neon pink T-shirts brings them together, helps them to find each other and navigates them to find their way home. The concert was a fundraiser for breast cancer research. 5/9/2015 POW! assignment

A tree

A little seed of a maple tree fell between our fence and a neighbor's shed. For first couple of years I even didn't know about it until it grew above the cement base. It kept growing and getting stronger and larger. “The tree will disturb our fence and grow into the shed.” The neighbor couldn't not move his shed, and beside, the tree was on our property, so it was I who should do something about it. First years I trimmed the branches and cut the tree to the height of the fence. “I think it has it and it will die.” It didn't. It continued to grow above the neighbor's shed. Now I began to thing something about it, because the tree meant trouble. So I took off the fence and cut the tree down to the cement base as far as I could. What was left was only a little stump. I put the fence back. Guess what? Next year green tree was growing up again. It became a personal war between I and the tree. I kept cutting leaves and branches to deprive it of its vital sources – and the tree kept growing, little bit crooked but growing. I took off the fence again, cut it down, left as small stump as I could and used all house chemicals to be sure the tree will die this time. I placed the fence back. Next year it was the same story. I lost the battle with the tree. I moved out. 5/9/2015 POW! assignment

Prayer

Dear God, thank you for letting him to be in my life. He is the nicest guy I know. Our walk was just too short. I'll appreciate if I could enjoy him more. In the case he will have to go, don't let him to be in pain for long. Amen