Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes

Livingsocial at 324 Level Road

circa post high school graduation

found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time

within familiar four walls of his bedroom.

He preferred solitude versus

interacting with either his father or mother,

practicing perfect aggressive passive posture

whereby one or the other parent hurled curses.

Non-social trademark characteristic

thwarted him joining in any reindeer games,
being withdrawn and undersized

overlaid with figurative veneer of anxiety
and a submucosal cleft palate to boot

condemned him to lapse into

comfortably numb state of isolation and loneliness.

Escapism courtesy binge reading
attempting to relish every tome

contributed to purposefulness

helping to answer why I did exist

plus acquisition of knowledge

kindled gray matter approximately

size of left and right fist

allowed, enabled, and provided grist

buzzfeeding overactive imagination

engendering fantasies, you get the jist

at expense of never getting son kissed

during pre/post adolescence

essentially a wallflower
major/minor milestones missed
(such as going to the prom)

in retrospect, I feel grievously pissed.

Solitary non trivial pursuits,
across checkered past monopolized
inborn instinct never to witness

salubrious socialization to flourish,

(please don't feel sorry)

though cultivating modest knack

with English language

a commendable trait,

whether engrossed solving word games,
reading reputable news source

or turning pages of spellbinding book

galvanized mine attention

ferrying thoughts away being

figuratively hermetically sealed

secluded, sedated, (albeit narcotic

viz printed material), separated,
segregated, sequestered, settled...

away from madding crowd

including kith and kin.

Even as a darling little boy
(naive and oblivious to sax and violins)
ways and means sought

to secure absolute zero

interaction with others, I did employ

getting ably linkedin

with storied sixteenth president,
(vis a vis time traveling thru enterprising
seat of the pants experience
whizzing to and fro, hither and yon

at lightspeed helter skelter

back and forth across

space/time continuum

punctuated qua grammatical equilibrium)

spiritually invisibly convening

with alluring American historical figure

namely he who resided when elected

commander in chief

made popular the state of Illinois

analogous to Star Trek

becoming most favorite television show

in equal parts courtesy

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
giving legendary Helen of Troy

a run (with Paris) for her money.

Poetry writing a medium

to create embellishment
concerning mine humdrum existence
healthy development chokingly boxed

maturation of body, mind and spirit stunted

impossible mission to ameliorate indelible legacy

vibrant potential abilities sabotaged

webbed wide wakefulness smothered

psychological travails wracked mein kampf

schizoid personality disorder

stymied inherited physical, mental

and spiritual strengths,

whereby bulk of living years

populated by submissiveness.

If born during an earlier era

antedating first Industrial Revolution
hypothetical fictitious me,
would experience rural modus operandi

as fitting, perhaps apprenticed
(rustic accommodations accepted
such as still found in Lake Wobegon)
with respectable tradesman adept as printer,

a clever literate playfully mischievous lad

stealthily including personal editorials
or opinions about difficult challenges

regarding how very shy young man

feels ill at ease when attempting

to befriend a bonnie lass.