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Michael John Nov 2024
isn't it odd how lives become inexplicably
entwined, says lily,
eyeing me balefully..

there is a strangeness and beauty
meant to be and sundry cliche
and how sometimes i absolutely

hate and detest you but see
the love,the duality,
how could nothing else be..
Michael John Nov 2024
i
i

lily says in
this here short story
a badge is refused

so the accused is in-
carcerated in a toilet
with a goat

and when released
he shoots six..
death in the azaleas!

5 elders and an innocent
in the crowd-called
the partridge festival..

ii
Michael John Nov 2024
remember,c,how we chanted
that poem-i do not-because i
choose not to..

the second part went
surreal and beyond
but i still have it
and guess what
there is a crushed flower..

but the first lines ran
i do not know if the world
has lied-i have lied..

an interesting start
and then-i do not know
if the world has conspired
against love- i have conspired
against love..

the daffodils blazed away..
the tractors ground by..
then,the atmosphere of torture is
no comfort-

i have tortured-
like the world is ok
but i am not..
now,i am ok and the world
is not..lol..don´t know what

happened..but the next lines
had me glugging wine-listen,
even without the mushroom cloud
still i would have hated-
my memory fades..

i will not be held under the
cold tap of facts-i refuse the universal alibi..
i think that´s right..
i try to avoid the book..
i stole it from newmarket library
have i not paid..


ii

the second part made no sense really
to me so i kept it to myself
you would understand
no doubt in a blink of those yellow flecks
but it went something like

like a telephone kiosk past at
night and remembered
like the mirrors of a movie palace lobby
consulted only on the way out
like a nyphomaniac that binds a thousand
into a strange brother hood
some thing..i wait for each of you to confess-effed up somewhere
no doubt..
Michael John Nov 2024
who will win?
water pistols and placard
verses greed?

once, a house was a home
it became an investment
(and then a tent..)

lily says, at least, there could
be a commune
(some sort of choice..)

for families-a community
away from the greed
etc..
Michael John Nov 2024
x
x
***
hex

y
ye
see

z
zephyr-sweet
zzzz..
Michael John Nov 2024
x
x ray specs
i loved-there or
their a girl

bold day glows
high and low
modern life so

sweet phobias
honest and saxaphone
tight by god..

in pain and wild
just fun
i hit him back

with my pet rat..
clever golly..
identity..

polly
thought provoking
i was past thinking

but her
she kept me going
the *****..

sbe charmed like
a great siren-pretty
and innocent..

teenagers
in a bad world
i live off you

or get a job
merciless
or

drink all day
sort of
o
Michael John Nov 2024
indecision-
come on son
(the ice cream man...)
a 99 or 66..

a mivvi..
decisions..
you can´t have everything
nothing goes to nothing..
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