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Michael John Oct 2021
i)

you listen to me
but fail to comprehend
when you say we
deserve what we get-

i see..
when you say then
nothing for nothing
we have to pay..

ok-
and-render unto caesar
that which is casears´
(me?)

the concept of possession
i grasp
and a piece of poison
a laugh

yeah,yeah..
everything costs!
whether it be
brilliant or mediocre..

(bad = good
good=?
sick=good
good=?)

crystal clear..
(and supply equals
demand and vice-
versa..)

undeniable
irrefutable
what else
(as mrs thatcher said,

you can not buck
the market!
(but she married a
millionaire?!)

ii)

and if you´re
disliked may as
well go dig a
hole..

the popular
were mostly
psychos
as i recall-

they said
well,
he´s not a
bad old

boy
but don´t get
on his wrong
side

(or yon side)
i wondered..
i wonder
as you get

older..
the ******* and
lies
accrue

higher and higher
(and you say
surely that is
the cherry)

it is easy to retreat
into a world of
fantasy-
we clutch at

words like reality
and even destiny
and the bird´s
will not quit

it..
listen to what i
say..
tt..
Michael John Oct 2021
ah,wee bird of truth
nothing new
flies through
subterfuge

to sit in the agave
and watch me
like i know see
free..
Michael John Oct 2021
ah wee bird of truth
what is new
your wing clipped
by smile
and subterfuge..

they sit in the
agave
and watch me
like i know
i watch you..
Michael John Oct 2021
philanthropy is
the
way to go
-ipso facto,
obvious, but not
always easy to put
into practise (forgive my
clumsiness)..

any act of kindness
i  
recall was sometimes
repaid in myriad ways
in pattern and coincidence
that left undeniable faith
until today..
Michael John Oct 2021
doctor, i don´t like
you-
(it is nothing personnel
you understand
you are probably
a decent man
but it is the mountain
of bull-****
that accrues day
by day
that taint´s every
breath i breath
it is the hypocrisy
it is the mean way
it is the beady
little eye
it is the fatal
shrug
nothing´s torpid
hug
in a living hidden
with lie
silence omits
we forgotten
song gone
understanding
sympathy
empathy
peachy
why i don´t
like
it is not really
understanding
why..)

a man walks into
a bar
and slaughters
all
puts a disc on
and makes
breakfast..
Michael John Oct 2021
doctor,i woke laughing
could n´t  see a thing
what now brings
yesterday stings
then in
waiting

i dreamt on
lost and a
lone
love done
i carried sleeping

like a last corn-
flake fixed to a
white plate
a tear that snug
and would
if and wait

on my shoulder
doctor
and said i will
remember
your kiss a
tickling whisker

i woke again
thought where have
i been
i wondered nuclear
waved a curtain
and thought the
morn clear..
Michael John Oct 2021
doctor,i woke
laughing
love was stoked
a nuclear

engine!
i was fat/thin
onward **!
where i´d been?

a lost
alone and
gone
dream..
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