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Michael John Sep 2024
who is there?
a bon viveur
a smiling killer..

who knows
(when we meet another..)?
an epicurean with a mad bone

stone and bereft
some celebrity chef
all in white

half a liver
a dribble of balsamic
and bloodied cleaver!

is he sick
am i sick
(just answer the effing door)

-i am hungry and naked
a shred of peacock wing
but unafraid..

ii

yes,purple, blue and greens..
if one lands on the roof
it for-tells death

a harbinger of doom
or just a man
from amazon...

iii

it is best not to over think
it happens-a knock upon the door-
shall i put my clothes on?

i get so comfortable..
burning spear!
perhaps they are gone

the morning is dancing
a cup of tea
the birds are singing..
Michael John Sep 2024
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what are we?
(that is what she wants
to know..)

identity,is the crisis,
can´t you see?
-we are the past

and future..
don´t cry,lily,
(all crimes are paid..)

are you afraid?
-dying is hard
when the sun shines

and the birds sing
happily in
the trees..

ii

there is the major
and minor
the micro and
hows your father..

eat the hamburger
and take care of each other
o officer dibble-
mandible..

iii

she is spaced as cake
(no time for hate)
running around in her
docs alone..

a knock upon the door
stops her dead
who is there
fear unkown..
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..?

ii

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..

iii

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..

iv

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..

ii

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

iii

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..

iv
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..

ii

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..?

iii

(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..

iv

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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