Cinco de Mayo

y Taco Tuesday 2026

David L White

May 05, 2026

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Cinco de Mayo on Taco Tuesday

And, yes, we had a couple of soft corns
from the Gorditas truck just a block over.

Cinco de Mayo
Five Poems near May
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Hobo Heaven

Wandering at nearly
the speed of the breeze,
simultaneously lost and found,
everything exquisitely placed
and well within reach

How does it get any better?

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Sandwich

It’s not that
I don’t know. I do.
And I don’t.

It just seems
better than
saying I am
not going to
tell you because
you will not stay
to hear the end.

I might wouldn’t.
Might.
Not.

I do know. Some.
Let’s get a sandwich.
Extra mayo on mine.

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Monday morning poem
© David L White
April 27, 2026

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Cashton Westby

Twenty Hundred Twenty and Six
The Very End of March Almost

My Dearest Cashton Westby,

I see you writing
about packing
and moving.

This alerts me a little more than a little. And,
telling you this might indicate that I may not
actually watch the weather … every … day.

Now, I think about lofting a note to your street
… simply to give you something else you could
pack in to your packing, and that seems ….
Well, how can I miss you any more anyway?

Here? As if. Elsewhere?
Always mostly.
Please take me with you.
God. Please.

Before I can even gather my colored pencils,
I realize it’s a month end already and time
to shovel bucket this piece into the box.

Love,
West,
of Mitchell

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Kite Reeling

I practice reeling the leash.
(The kite peoples may have
a technical term.)

All I know is I feel like
skin and bone aloft
in the breeze

grinning, grateful, and
hanging on, with my
hair in slow motion

like a (formerly) very
popular shampoo
commercial.

Oh my look
at those
clouds.

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Alterations

While I have little
reputation or cash
I am willing to wager
that Robert Frost would

come back to us and, maybe
privately perhaps, edit
some of his Road Not Taken

For myself I have noticed
that the thing remains
open to alterations

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