Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

874 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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A Good Fit
Her breath on my chest Are whispers nocturnal Fomenting the day ahead Before my plans awaken . Her convexity To my concavity
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Fine Print and Asterisks
Forebode the forbidden And the roads overridden When backbreaking trysts Risk spinal discs . Fine print's for the old
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
A Perfect Month To Leap
He was a consummate mathematician, so he loved February. You could count on February. February was perfect. Four perfect weeks of seven days. Exactly 28 days. Divisible by 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, and 28. Rational.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Pipsqueaks and Such
Pipsqueaky freaky, sneaky uneasy Persnickety uppity lickety-split Stealing stealthy unhealthy beneath me Until I'm convinced and forced to acquit
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Mosquitos — Would You Miss 'Em?
Mosquitos. Would anyone miss 'em? Malaria, chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever? Genetically modified mosquitos unable to reproduce? Sounds like a great idea.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Living Doll™
The Nia® series. Cantileave 'er Alone™ She was a work of industrial art. Poetry in kinetic motion. A sensuous capacitor of potential energy.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Smoking Can Kill You!
A smoker inhaled hydrogen for floatation Ignored the need of safety regulation Went only so high till peaking After his lighter-than-air got leaking
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Dancing with the Czars
POLITICO NEWS FEED: February 26, 2024 VLADIMIR PUTIN LOSES A SQUEAKER ON DANCING WITH THE STARS Tuesday's Dancing with the Stars was the most highly-rated broadcast in dance history. Nielsen rated the ABC show's points/share highly, even suffering from Russian TVs typically being "black & white" cathode ray types.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Failure
When everything fails: Solutions beyond your reach— You are not alone
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
56 Greener Grass
I walked, lost in fog, deep in a forest. Moments earlier there was no fog, no forest. Something had sought me out. Something was coming.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Mount Olympus
I hear dust devils echoing with antediluvian tales. I feel sandy stings of wispy winds carrying to my wind-blown face caveats left over from distant epochs.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Symphony of the Spheres
God's radio is my seashell. Like most things of the divine, I find it in the simplest things. Children well know this. Consider my conch.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction