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Michael John Jun 2024
feathers-
what is heaviest
a tonne of them
or a tonne of stone

or your heart or mine..
good question..
examine one minutely
and god you may see!
Michael John Jun 2024
feathers-
emily said,
hope is a thing
with them..

woody said
without them..
we say,
one in our cap!

there is the miracle
of creation
perfection..
Michael John Jun 2024
i

a hat-
can be
what one
wants´ it
to be-

(a list of
synonym or
antonym-make your own!)

it can be time,
it can save you
from a beating..

sun and rain,
marc said,the hat
that caused a revolution?

a man who saves
a space
for a quarter

another man wants
to parc his car..
a dough nut..

cherries were popular
an avacado
you name it..

ii

names-march around the
column-they veil our vision
in the crystal corridors
they trip fron gilded tongues

and we say-a hat-and discard
it and lay in the shadows of dust
-a feather as a reward
lovers of the first touch..
Michael John Jun 2024
clever, this is one
of those words
i have never done-

my shoulders touch
my ears and i look
into the void-

if you can explain time
or talk your way out
of a beating

then who am i to say..
if you can do the latter
by the former..then..

ii

then ..hats off..
i mourn the demise of
the hat-

a hat might
explain time or..
or not..
Michael John Jun 2024
i met a man of the circus
you could here it
his fathers-
clowns and light-


magic and applause..
he said won´t you play-
his handle-bars!?
(am i a charity..)

listen-la´s-give it away
for love or if you have to eat
and god bless the fray..
once, i knew an honest

man..say,

ii

lily,you would think,
strange, had lost it´s
currency

in this day and age..
-language is meaningless
soon,we will just babble..

on screens
scream and howl
like camera caged

owls-our feathers
terminally ruffled
of  outrage..

iii

(sounds familliar..)
it is not the one´s
with purple hair

but  hearts pierced
with nothing
to look out for-

they care for nada
(not even money)
and certainy not

for the stars
they really don´t want it
or just a reasonable part..
Michael John Jun 2024
it is funny how
you can buy a musical instrument
and their is wisdom and hope
passion and love

or death..course the guy in the shop
tells you none of that-
you will want a book..?
(patting his pocket..)

in your eyes are their stars..!
yer womans a groupie
dad´s a roadie
boy,you will go far..!

ii

next thing you know
your studying the rules
white of visage upon
the re-hab wall..

-your brain a kind of
demented-dumbledore
going:
oh god..oh god..oh..
Michael John Jun 2024
i

i live a stone´s throw from
every-where
it is all there-

just waiting-the mundane
and odd little things
on the high and arrow

or far and far
o
around the corner-

i may stay or run away
to derby
in my pipe and slippers..

ii

lily, (examines her book mark-
read a book and save the
world)-derby?

sal and dean are visiting
bull-lee-william borroughs
down on the bayou

a complicated man
a family man with rocket
launcher and plans

for a shelf..
the breeze from the levee
a party..

iii

derby?
-the road to redemption
and love may be..

it is the recognition and
courage-
a filter system from nothing

too-derby..?
or the ganges..
just a stone´s throw..
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