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Michael John Oct 2024
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examining the hair on
her arm pit-she says,
there is nothing we
have n´t killed and died for..

the emancipation of women
our morning cereal-
the supermarket is a trail
of death and devastation

not to mention depression and
exploitation-at 30 per cent off
not a big love or happy way
at any cost..
Michael John Oct 2024
try again
you want to share what´s
mine..

how about,
if we share
what´s yourn..

we share our pain
some are good at coping
others not..
Michael John Oct 2024
try again,
where would we be
without pain
some dystopian story-

but at least we´d be
happy-(though, we knew not
why)-and if we tried
our brains fried

with sport and ***,
texts-to say what it may be
we would fail-
dismally..
Michael John Oct 2024
i
i

every time i write i wonder why, (examing
her arm pit
running through the mine pit
like a canary

momentarily ahead with the noxious
fumes gaining..)
if it were love
or money..

ii

god must have wondered too
(that would no doubt be
blasphmy in less enlightened times..
they would have tortured me)

but when he made me and you
the gift of creativity
remains-(and burnt me like
an old tree..)

iii

so,(see how far we have come)
so,we have freedom
(to be used responsibilly)
(neither love nor money)

and who is to say-what will
be..
just to say one thing! that may
be of passing interest to someone..

iv

that is the question
why bother-i distrust our
motive-it´s brevity
is too short

it´s length too long
just say what you mean
and let us leave it at that
beauty?

love and money
again..
inexstrictable pain
and monotony..
Michael John Oct 2024
i
i

it is obvious like the
words from long before
hindsight is right..
(a bit obscure lily

let´s have clarity..)
when i consider
when i remember
the hairy dilemma..

why are we still here
(specifically..)
some chance encounter
what was nearly

a word that was not
to look up
or to look down
or luck

to sniff the air
portent or a change
of mind-consider reality
the lessons of history..

think of something
quickly
words..(or maybe elaborate
mime..)

instinct, i mean
question
i knew there was some thing
odd-

not  thoughts from a
trunk..silence in the jungle
or a smile
or pray to god..

ii

it is a wonder any get through
the things you know
and worse

the things you don´t..
me and you
guilt and innocent..
Michael John Sep 2024
which is better than me,
or the same somehow
as you-i won´t say
me..

lily lilts away..
what gives me the right?
you won´t or don´t hear me?
i could give a ****..

i love poetry!
not some ego fight
i do it for the money
and a smile..

to bust up some
moment
slugger!
heil ******..
Michael John Sep 2024
i thought you might read a
poem-i having nothin
new-given up hoping
i put out my heart

for the love of it but-
but devoured by thankless-
more or less they cried
say hard..

so. we have silence which
is much better
in the flickety-flower
i hear (god etc)...
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