Not for the first time...

It is not the first

Time I have sat

In complete

Astonishment

And shock

But it will also

Not be the last

Either,,,

I can recall

Watching my mother

Drive up 

And assuming 

That she had come

For me

Instead of Demi 

Or Sandra

And then there

Were those lunches

She would always

Make sure I was

Not around for them

Usually a doctors 

Appointment

Meant that I was

Being excluded

Including the time

I was getting

Kidney dialysis

I was still in school

But I could take myself

I would wait just past

The train station

For the hospital bus

And across the street

Was the Chinese town

Or what was left of it

And there was a killer

Buffet Chinese restaurant

Those were in the day

I knew of my severe

Peanut allergy

But not that they 

Used Peanut oil 

For their frying

In fact most 

Restaurants do use it

Peanut oil for frying

It has a higher temperature

There was my brother

Going around the corner

And entering the place

With my mother

This happened

More than once

What betrayal

By her!

To keep me busy

While the boys 

Were being allowed 

To visit her 

I am not talking

About Jimmy

Who is not a relative

But always barges in

I would beware 

If I was on a special detail

Those guys 

Looked as if they

Were expecting the worse

I had comments today

From behind me

To the affect that

They had already 

Gotten the verdict

I believe many of them

Had heard prior

To it being read

Trump had probably

Been told as well

Not supposed to happen

But sometimes

The shock is too much

The Judge should

Have waited until

Tomorrow morning

But he wanted to get

It over with

In most cases

It would probably

Be safe to say

The testimonies 

Would be thrown out

No one should have been

Sure of the outcome

And yet that is not

What I am picking up

On with the onlookers

And all accounts

No wavering

This is interesting

It is almost as if

They want it to be 

Overruled or something

Certainly an appeal

Can be mounted

But then there was

Something in his walk

As if I am man enough

For this to go through

The President 

Could pardon him 

If he agrees not

To run against him

It is surely a situation

That they wanted

To prevent these

Two men from facing off

And yet that is what

Is going to occur

There will be few

Who wont want

Him to continue

This race for the Oval office

Who should win

Both of them

They are both qualified

And they have both

Had problems

With their kids

And are not 

First timers

With spouses

What should he do

Tonight it going to be

A hard one

For Jill

An unfair advantage

Has happened

What will Joe do?

He loses if he wins

History will always

Remember this moment

When it appears 

As if the sitting 

President caused

His contender

To go to jail

Instead of just 

Letting the voters

Do their job.

He causes to become

That was one of Jimmys

Favorite expressions

He wanted people

To believe he was 

Causing things to happen

He just got the information

First before it was published

I recall how often

My carefully timed

Piece was superseded

By him making the announcement

As if was the one

Who had sat all day

On a hard bench

Waiting and waiting

And then standing in line

At the ladies room

Wondering what 

Was happening 

Back in the courtroom

The days before

Cell phones

I was one of the first

To use such a strange

Device 

Even had one of those

Satellite ones

Where are you 

Calling from

The middle of the 

Amazon!

Just listen and repeat

How often I still

Hear her voice

Thank you 

Camille

Hey wait a minute

That was Vargas

What are you guys

Doing?

You are not supposed

To put me up 

If I am not ready

Much less don't know

Whom I am speaking

I have had a nervous

Something or other

From being told

I don't exist 

Nor am I needed

When in fact

They were just following

Orders

Orders from Jimmy

Well may the best man

Win fair and square!

It is like finding

A rare item

Only to have the

Credit go to someone

Else and then

Find out is worth

Money!

A diamond mine

Is the claim 

Of the beauty above

But was it really?

Have never found 

Another one the same

Color in that mine

But hey!

Why should they not 

Be believed?

If it is raining outside

It might just be the rain

And then again it might be

Jimmy peeing

Did I mention

That he was on his fathers

Show?

Captain Kangaroo

Had him sing the little

Spider crawled up the spout

And when he got to that point

He pulled it out and let go

With poor papas 

Face covering the camera

I was also told

That it was Jimmy

Upstairs

At the White House

The day Hillary 

Had to change her clothes

Because she was standing

Down wind of ???

Not pleasant news

Today nor tomorrow

As I often told

Meredith B

If I come out of a 

Bathroom and find a man

In the bed

I assume he is in 

The wrong room

Meredith and I 

Apparently spell

Our name the same

She is always 

Snagging my hotel 

Accommodations!

Poor Tom 

He worked with my mother

At Burbank studios

And I was a well trained

Girl

Never go into the toilet

Without your wallet

And always exit

If there has been 

A change in the 

Environment.

Never, never

Listen to someone

Who does not know

To simply leave!

But then I had those

Years when I was

Fainting or passing out

And did wind up

In a few places....

They finally took out

My kidney

Not the same as 

An appendicitis

Which they claim

Does nothing at all

And is not needed

But they did give

Me my sisters

And I know she wants

It back someday!

Well Bobbie K

The court is yours!