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Michael John Sep 2024
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the dreaded white!
cold as gold
bold as betrayal
miserable ..!

expectant and silent
nowwhat..?
some miserable diatribe
on unrequited love?

how much better is
pea-*******..
the cat poe
who knows..?

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the life of the poet
(take off the t)
if a women lies naked
at your feet..

if the rain and wind
break your heart
if a song is only part-
a wart..

the witch and her
proboscis-the mosh pit,
o try to forget!
the way she´d hold her

pint..glance back at the dew
on the spider´s web
o the way.. the way..
the way young lover´s do..

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if i played a tune
perhaps i might sleep
but i am musical as
an incontinent sheep-

the way she sung in
the bath..identity, is the crisis
can´t you see-
little things like sledgehammers..

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she turns a page-
wolfe like a memory
or dream
paris and monmarte

generosity..
fun all the rage..
hey,what are we
that´s what i want to know..
Michael John Sep 2024
if you can´t enjoy yourself-
if you can´t speak the truth
if you can´t breath
if you can´ t be..

lily reads some wolfe-
suddenly,the image blazed
to the structure of hard actuality
another bar..
and all around hoarse laughter
high,sanguinary voices
a sudden scheme of faces scarred of night and
vivid with night´s  radiance..prostitutes
taxi-drivers...and those other nameless,unmistakable ones,
who come from somewhere-god knows where
and who live somehow-
god knows how-
and who recede again into morning
into unknown cells but who live here only,
brief as moths and balefully as a serpents eye
in the unwholesome chemistry of the night..

she says she like wolfe
i read him too
he tells the truth
in poetic words
hard to put down..
Michael John Sep 2024
the clowns wandered not far
the earth-centrifugal-
the people came as one
with the lion and camel-

one smelled rather foul
the other a star-
said, better in a cage then
the jungle..

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to understand the babble
first -quiet
he said,the great peace
in your heart..

look in the rubble
amid the white-
freedom is hell
time´s sweet blight

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i said thankyou lion,
the many colours..
the camel farted-
i set off for south..

reality-that *****
of a chessnut!
came back sorted-
a rainbow and sepia..

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back to the underground
and my guitar
i swung an axe
for a tinker

and then they left
all together
the applause and
myself bereft..
Michael John Sep 2024
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i wish i could write
like the little bird
that hovers in my face
between wire
and glass..
Michael John Sep 2024
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´do scientists´ have feelings
fish still have no idea-!'
can´t see where you´re going
with this one

lily says, it is the continuing saga
of man´s suppossed
superiorty and his inabillity
to ask pertinent questions-

let´s assume they do-will we stop
doing all the awful things
we do to them..?
chemical weapons etc..

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it read-do fish have feelings?
scientists are getting closer..etc
they attach electrodes-
can you feel that..

how do you feel about pollution?
what do think,harris over trump?
will you flourish long after we
have destroyed ourselves..?

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(your glib attitude wins you
no friends)-hey,i am only a
fish..a fish in a bowl..
all alone...

a small circle what i
want in mind
not much future and
a ****-trail behind..

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in search of treasure
and happy times
back to the fore
shiny bubbles..

what was or were
just demented dreams
to the very core
deprogrammed fish..
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they might begin by paying
the workers in the tourist industry
a living wage-
(as they are notoriously underpaid..)


is that poetry, she says,
poetry, can make the world a better place
so i think it is..
(thus, sharing the wealth..)
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between a lion and a camel
i woke in the night
with the roar of the jungle
(i set off for italy but..)

they were my role model
(i mean small cage rights)
freedom can be hell
they said, alright-

you know the knell-
time´s a sweet blight
clowns and artists fell
from the earth height

to only a cheap sell-
the audiance tight
arrived one two well!
all together,right..
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