Vendor Writing & Poetry

MAY GOD BLESS YOU

LESLIE S.

May God bless you on whatever road you take May God never turn his back on you in your time of need. May God cherish your loyalty Cherish God’s love of you he must speak Forever you went out on a limb to save others that were lost, but now they’re found … God’s love

God is your loving heavenly father, in heaven A member of God’s congregation is coming to save you despite the sea of demons that chose to desecrate and deceive you This knowledge can be miraculous and life-changing it’s a spectacular display of God’s power Judgement day is right around the corner …

2021

JUNE P.

Happy New Years to my customers in Belmont at Bi-Rite grocery. Want to thank you all for ya’s support and help in everyways, money, clothes, food, shoes, everything I could possibly need. You was there. I am grateful. And the talk we have every day, every week. I would not take anything for them.

Love you all.

Thank you all at Osborne’s Bi-Rite for having me.

January 6, 2021, changed America

BY VICKY B.,CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

I was saddened. I was sick. I was watching an attack on our very constitution unfolding on my TV. Americans mobbed the Capitol building in Washington after leaving a rally where POTUS had stated to, “fight like hell.”

This man entered the White House four years earlier after winning the election over Hillary Clinton. A huge upset but, not too surprising given that voter turnout had been steadily declining. I even thought that having a businessman in the White House

would be better than a back scratching politician. He was elected and I made many posts online about giving him the respect he deserved being an elected official.

I was unfriended by many because of the views I had for someone new entering the arena of politics.

Since entering the White House, Trump has been embarrassing to me as a United States citizen. He has poor communication skills and is on social media with the absence

of a much-needed filter but, Jan. 6 was it. Trump had fired up the crowd, He’d been throwing kindling on the fire for months with lies about “winning the election by a landslide” and “stealing the election” and “voter fraud.” Is it a wonder we didn’t see this coming? Now there are high fences topped with barbed wire surrounding the Capitol looking like a prison instead of the freedom it stands for.

Two years in I was beginning to understand

what others were saying about Trump. The pandemic gave me more time in front of the TV watching the news. I realized that he was in fact a poor president acting more like a six year old throwing a temper tantrum because he wasn’t getting his way.

This didn’t make America great again, it set America back several years with division and so-called conspiracy theories that people would rather believe than accept the truth.

Here We Are in a New Year

BY WILLIAM B.,CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

Here we are in a new year. I’ve written quite a few stories about my life, the way it used to be and some of the things I’ve done in it. I’ve written some of the good things that have happened to me and some of the bad things.

I thought I’d never see anything so bad in my life as this pandemic. When the towers fell on 9/11, I thought that was bad, but this pandemic is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m 72 years old. I don’t think I could see anything worse than this. And the second worst thing I’ve seen is Trump leading people into the Capitol Building and causing the riot. I think he should

be impeached. That’s my opinion only, but I’m entitled to that. Other presidents might have been bad, but we haven’t had a worse president in my history than Trump.

This pandemic is so bad. I lost a friend: My fine cousin Stan. Years ago he nicknamed me, “weed hopper” because when I used to be on drugs I smoked more marijuana than any of them did. Stan was one of my favorite cousins and now he’s gone.

I also lost one of my favorite brother-in-laws this year and his name was Raymond. Raymond was a veteran. He fought for his country. He

met my sister and they fell in love and they were married for quite a few years. They have two beautiful kids and my sister, she’s a good girl. She’s a lot younger than me. She’ll go on because that’s what Raymond would have wanted. I just hope she doesn’t pick up cigarette smoking again. In my lifetime, I’ve been off of them quite a few times. This last time it’s been almost three years. I feel good except my lungs are still pretty bad. I’m on three different inhalers for my COPD.

I’m not going to keep on about my health. With this pandemic and people with their

masks on I can’t tell if people know me or not, and I don’t know who they are. They could be family and I don’t even know it. I won’t say nothing unless they say something to me.

If you say something to someone because you think you know them, the way the world is, people will cop an attitude real quick. Me, I will try to walk away before I duke it out. Fighting is not what makes the world go round. Walking away, talking it out, and if you were wrong, admit to it. If they were wrong and they don’t want to admit to it, just walk away. Don’t egg it on.