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Michael John Aug 2024
i)
i)


grumpy on the couch:
i was never loved, doc,
q:(a common whine-)

what makes you say..?
a:a void of feeling..
a vaccum..

q:you are defficient in
everyday emotions?
a:how do i know-

q:you can not communicate?
a:words, they hurt..
q:how so?

a:i try to relate..
q:you feel isolated..
a:i feel alone

a:i feel nothing..
q:you are repressed by
life..

a:i am repressed by life
i would hurt myself but
i am a coward..

i would die..i want to..
nothing to do but how..
life is pointless..

q:tell me about your
poetry-
i got out of bed

ii)

and in my head a
cacophony
that enticed and

bored in about equal
measure
mum,put my eggs on..

where is my paper-
the dog had ripped it
asunder..

mum,put the television
on..
i look out the window-

mum,when did you last
clean the windows..?
everything the same..

what about the weather..
rain..
in my heart a vacuum..

i have to vaccum, dear,
sorry..
where are my soldiers..?!

same as yesterday-where
is my life..
same as tomorrow..

iii)

meanwhile,happy does
a back to back boogie
with a little doxie

he met by rumblelows,
they look in the window
caught in flangrante..
Michael John Aug 2024
i
i

would it not be crazy
if we found our own voice
instead of why
we cried because..

happy howls f death-
i am alive..!
grumpy is at the psychiatrist
in the antechamber..

ii

i feel life pointless,doc,
the days pass with relentless
monotony
(not a word i use

lightly)
i have forgot how to smile
the world is crumbling
my only friend is a dog..

iii

i write poetry
this is called a bump on a log-
that is me-useless person number
three-what i say why,
i cry no-i mean no...!

better then red-dead
yeah..do i know-no
but i pretend,
a conundrum-a rhetorical
nowt..

dread and anguish in
my head..
a blemish or less
tiny spot-worse, can
it be worse..yes..super in superfluous..

iv

what ever they pay it is
insuffice and he is out!
the window-past the
gambling dens

and pound shops
past the fast food outlets
past the charity shops
past the telephone

and computer emporium
stops to inspect his ***-
ok..on!
past the pickled gherkin..

lugubrious *** the doorman
smokes a woodbine-hello
hap?!-hi ***!
examines form...

where´s the man?
inspecting his thing-
people..four letters
hap-lost in time?


past some polystyrene
past a puddle
past a moment
past a chip shop

past the sky
past a now
past the cop-shop
past the moon too..
Michael John Aug 2024
i
i

do you wonder what
your last words will be?
to para-phrase-oscar-
he said, it was either he

or the wallpaper..well,
we have no wall-paper-
i wish my view,though,
the blue sky and

ii

mediterranean..
and perhaps, why?
(it was my first-)
time is circular
not linear..

or perhaps your
mad blue eyes
what difference..?
because..
Michael John Aug 2024
my
my old girl looks after appartments
and one day she brung home your
biography

and i am getting toward the end
-an entertaining read-!
when suddenly

i am transported back-
guns and roses on the juke
the bridge over the nene

and you are waiting for me
to speak but shrugging and
giving up and walking away..
Michael John Aug 2024
i
i remember you
miriam!
sitting in the angel?!
(what your ambition..?!)

i see you from the corner
of my elgood´s eyes..
making me nervous,
waiting for me to speak,

we could still be their
now..
shrugging and giving up..
walking away..
Michael John Aug 2024
happy
are you happy
define your terms?

never mind-
in my mind
is neither afore

nor later..
i do no eat
and eat

i do not want
and want
i do not point the

finger..
i do not covet yours
with beady black eyes..

i do not cry
at the drop of a hat
i do not laugh

like a giraffe..
i have a bath
my nose is clean..

(as we say)
today is today
and dying can and

can´t..
like a cruise into
the obtuse..
Michael John Jul 2024
power corrupts, happy
even or evening in
poetry-the urge to go on
and on-like the falling rain
or a moment for two spheres saying
hello-well you can imagine..

happy,says he can and
scoots across the carpet on
his ***-as an affirmative..
written spontaneously in about two minutes or less.to king crimson..and the sheltering sky..
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