Random ideas for further writing

Do you like to hoot?
Can you howl or call?
Have you learned any good noises at all?

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I'll tell. You all about myself
As long as it doesn't matter.
Pushy neighbors and longnoses
Can listen to me chatter
About inconsequentals
That sound just like news
Because of how they are phrased
And the tone of voice used

Listen to my narrative
As I bare nothing much
While pouring detail through a sieve
Yet portray with a deft touch
Employing a small story
Offering it vividly
So that it does seem
To give confidentiality

Years of gray-haired distant cousins
That want to know the life that's mine
" Have you any boyfriends, dearie? "
" why, yes. They stand in line."

There is an art to telling this
Story of a toothpaste stain
On my way to a wedding
That allows them to remain
Assured that I am telling them
Something close to my heart
When I veer away from that
And tell them the juicy part.
Which isn't all that juicy.
"The wedding? It's just lovely.
And I knew them when
They were ragged hippies
Now they work at IBM."

I like these people as a rule
But they will only know
The tidbits that I toss out
Like crumbs upon fresh snow.
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Recommend to a friend
And watch your friendship grow
A smile warms a lonesome heart
And cheers someone who's low

Ask. And ask. And ask again
Ask, then trust and wait.
The answer isn't far away
So let the doubt abate

Accept the gift however it comes
And do not fail to believe
In the rightness of generosity
You asked; now you receive.