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Michael John Oct 2024
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i

like you know the way
like it stretches
like time

reds and brown
gold like heaven
-less  a pitza

more religious
experience
utopia..

ii

and then we are obese
so we watch tv
things are tedious..

then,we do stuff we´d
rather not-ah..
dystopia..

what is to be
hope-a stick of celery
and a dip..
Michael John Oct 2024
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food has become beauty
lily muses-
and entertainment
coloured happy

not blue..
not happy open packet
open packet and stick content
in maw..

ii

more our first
word and maybe
our last thought..

time as chips
salt and poly-do-da
hunger and thirst..
Michael John Oct 2024
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i-i

i sometimes wonder what
we would do without conformity
or diversity..

take a fizzy drink
we will call horse´s ****-if
we did n´t all want it

then, it would not be..
same with love and belief..
caw!..lily pauses...

ii

some of you are probably
wondering what is she-
a notated anarchist..

revolutionary poet doing
opening a supermarket?
i need the money..lol..

but the way to change
is from with-in-and everyone
must eat-

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i do wonder what tennyson
would have made of it all
our consumer society..

there is something comforting
there is order
what is yours is yours

what is mine is mine
how else can it be
render unto caeser..

iv

in times of yore
nomadic man roamed here and
there..

(now we have asda
progress-can´t stop-)
we fought or effed and

then built a fence and
posession hopped
into our hearts like

an endless summer
and here we are..
of the future..

v

to conform or
grow your hair and
don flairs

a dab of patchouli
behind the ear
a flower in the hair-

am i me lsd
love an alien
have a nice time or

vi

the snack aisle..
the diverse
where i see

vision of the wild
the grass
a dying tree..

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at this moment i
stand with scissors
and see your expectant faces-

life is pure profit
or a bargain basement
or short changed

or hauled before the
man to beg and beseech
innocence..

not a word i use lightly
i leave you with this
supermarket..

viii

ginsburg followed walt
around-as he eyed
the pretty boys-

lonely old grubber!
and indeed who has
not fallen head over

trolly wheels-we met by
the meat counter..
romantic tales..

two way mirrors
surveillance and
*****..

look-30 percent off
a machine and well
kept bathrooms..
Michael John Oct 2024
superstition fission
(costs a billion)
per se-

instinct, a rinky-****,
a line so drawn
sand in the ****-

makes you think-
make me think-
but not too much..


ii

what does that mean
lily
the fantasy of logic..

the difference 'tween
fancied genre
fashion..

iii

what we are told
what we believe
what we feel
what we are sold..

new is old
and so forth
the world is flat
and that is that..

iv

i detect  discontent-
(they have asked her to open
a supermarket..)

take some acid-
moon in june-
you will be fine..

read a poem..
some poetry-
it will be fun

you see
i need the money
we need the money..
Michael John Oct 2024
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but on the positive
there is belief-
more of interest-

soon to be proved or disproved..
last word..?
o what a world!?

and into the void!
no more pain and no
more me..

ii

no more mornings
and little birds singing
coffee and eggs

no more silence
no wondering what comes
next

no more the tedious washing
up or off to the office
no more music..

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or writing..
no more nonsense
indeed-

no more senses
where o where will
they be..

are we afeared
****,we have lived
well..a tree..
Michael John Oct 2024
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40 years on lily
and i hate every-one
such is life..

what happened
you tell me-
(be brief..)

ii

maybe,
you put your existentialistic
finger on it-

brevity..death looms
we fall apart
our hearts grow cold..

sickness
madness
there is reality..

iii

and far too quickly
when twenty
how the sea was blue

and like wise the sky
eternal, just innocence
a sixpence

in the floating ether
the sun and tide
the evening done..
Michael John Oct 2024
when young lily
i liked women hairy
you know, natural..

and painted faces superfluous
made dull
the sun as  beautician unsurpassed..

their skin of lemon and brine
the little lines around
their eyes..

blues as the sea and sky
the rasp of the evening tide
the evening to come..
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