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Michael John Oct 2023
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i

best not to worry!
there is a formula-
answer: infinity
we..

(who gives a
monkey)
over the square of
nada..

look to the pretty
heaven!
greens and majestic
portals-

o glittering prizes!
pulsars
supernova and a
faintest signal

=´s money!
the more we know
the less we understand
infinity..

ii
lily reads from her
napkin-might recite that
tomorrow-
she is to read and promote
her new slim volume-
it is best to read something
fresh..as she gets bored with her
old stuff-on local radio..

iii

hard to critique ones
own
might be insightful or just
incomprehensible or banal
or so..

or angry and bitter
at such waste
political..
best try happy and-


you know roundabouts
shopping lists
love
etc


iv

the laundrette..
what do think,paul,
cynical
promotes thought..?

yes,but an odd
juxtaposition-
highlights the
hairdresser..special offer..

well,capital will
trivialise
(perhaps if you weren´t  
******..)

v

hedgehogs!
(a spontaneous blog)
i suckle on teats

and share your deep,
dark, secrets..
eye of blackest

dog-
prickly prickly
stealing and spying

so..
your heart worm
mine..
Michael John Oct 2023
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a question with so many
variables and unknowns
lily..i make the sign of
infinity-

(were going to a halloween
party-want to come?
fancy dress!i thought to
be a hedge hog..

stealing and spying!
black of eye
prickly-prickly-
(forever we cry

light and beauty
love our god-
so we die!)
infinite..
Michael John Oct 2023
paul,tea or coffee?
water,please, in which life began
and our destiny-
do you think our lives have
improved with the advancement
of technology?

(or were we better off with
fantastic superstition
dying old at forty
imagination..
the peace of god..)

(have we lost or
won
how angry to wait
a second?!
how blase we have
become..)

(still,it is enough cliche
to be
or not-a luddite
poet-let him speak,lily..
gods sake..)
Michael John Oct 2023
peach cobbler?
o ?
to share o

impossible so..
i suppose or
greed is any

different from
jealousy
inverted..

that we know
zero but insist
any-how..

hypocrisy is
the way..
poverty is necessary-

so on-
ice cream, paul,
why not..
Michael John Oct 2023
in
in days of yore
they swore
a witch would metamorphosis
into hedgehogs-
that crept about stealing
and spying
beady black eyed and
prickly-
you snigger, lily?

o absurd!
absurd is the word
man was god and nature
was cursed-
(the simple blackbird
the familiar to nefarious
end..

but there is a bird
that has followed
and will not quit
what it wants-)
and left-handed
cats,bats,rats-
all suspect..
third *******..

do you wonder, paul,
what beliefs
dear
will prove equally specious
in the future..?

an eloquent and interesting
question
-violence
ever solved anything-
that comes to mind
that the power of mind
is limiting..
natures cure limited
like wise the imagination
like wisdom
as love
love is not the answer..
peach cobbler..
Michael John Oct 2023
some noise a yonder-
´tis the neighbour
with yappy dog
and screaming kids
whom take insult
for they can hear
what we talk about
if they listen very
silent..

here is war in
the most reasonable
fashion -
sometimes
they like to join in
when were arguing..
mind their business
sounds like
dinm hiert ssenisub -for
it is a kind of duty
to perform and boredom
never never underestimate..

lily laughs
(perhaps if she put some
clothes on
the body does odd)
i wish i was a hedge hog
so do we..
Michael John Oct 2023
we
we are quiet-
a hedgehog is near!
some number-
(a witches ear)

more than ten!
less than ten!
river of light
take us home

let us flow like
the endless
balanced part-
ickle..

o bitter pickle!
-to happiness..
look she says
a shooting star..
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