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The door knock
witches, wizards,
or a warlock?
the only way to find out
is to move out
from your comfort zone
which is
as we all know
behind the barricades
of the fortress
you call your home.
The light's on
the hamster's in the wheel
someone is at home
so tell me
how does that feel?

I slept heavy
and not because I'm putting on weight
it was
the dream that dragged me under
into that deeper dreaming state

and I woke up feeling drugged up
shrugged my shoulders and I got up
because that's the way it is.
If only I had started to do it when I knew it had to be done, and it would have been, should have been, could have been ready by
now, but you know how things go when you become a bit slow
and the years start their advance,

and yet, even now girls ask me to dance,
but only to their giddy tune,
my answer's
no chance.

now I have to do it
I have no more excuses to give
and you're wondering what?
if you're not, why not?
or is it
that you have to do it too?
In the army when you pass out they give you a parade,
when I do it at home they leave me on the sofa to sleep it off.

Ruminating,
how does that not sound like
I'm an old goat?

But, ha,
I but a lot of times
but it's allowable
here in my citadel.

Tuesday and I warm my toes
because heaven knows it's
getting colder.
Chaotic or Quixotic?
aren't they the same?

Wind turbines are in
and usually the way.

What's for dinner?
I asked,
whatever you're cooking
She said,
and everything connects
but
maybe not on this timeline.

tilt and we all will
then reset
back to nil.
  Oct 2024 John Edward Smallshaw
Moo
I hide myself away so beautifully,
So I am perceived as an art form and nothing else,
Mimicking a mannequin,
An undeniably inhuman Facade upholds me,
A mere antique is all I can claim to be,
Inhabited in which is a crack,
That i pledges to veil,
Until,
Draps are drawn,
And amused audience embrace their ways to home,
One needs to look no further than the nose that juts from your face, that which you seek you will find and you’ll find it in the same place,

because I remembered that I forgot but then forgot what I’d remembered,

It could be that or it might be this, She says, never mind dear, and gives me a kiss,
some things I never forget to remember.
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