Brian Johnston Poems

(A Guide For New Minions)

1. It is much easier to hate those you know nothing about.
2. Always remember that when you kill someone they are no longer feeling pain. Prolong other's misery whenever possible.
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I. The ground fog that rises from dappled fields
Full of the scent of the earth and all living things,
Musky like dirt and fragrant like flowers,
Floating like wedding sheets,
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In poetry's fond verse we save
All matters of the heart,
Our thoughts that may be sweet or grave,
With which we'd hate to part.
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There's certainly an irony that's found in thoughts of ‘history'
However one may feel about the war between the sexes,
And would not ‘herstory, ' be just as sexist for example?
Is ‘history' itself a ploy to bring some peace to mystery?
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I can be sincere about garbage
It's no more than a gift I now see,
A chameleon shift into fanciful riff
That has nothing to do with me.
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The girls in Nebraska can be quite different,
It gradually Dawns on you that this is true ,
Like catching greased pigs at their county fairs,
Vast cultural differences come into view.
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A mentor and always my friend
A frolicking force in my life
His presence was always for good.
A tune that was easy to hum
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(Musings of a poet with huge doubts but boundless faith)

Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
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It was a grey day more or less on planet earth,
But earth’s robots hardly noticed at all
Robot logic so tuned into ones and zeros,
On and off, grey matter is of little interest
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Where did you find safety when you were a child,

Did flight also help you, I wonder my friend?

I felt like it did me, but that was because

My mom didn't try hard to suss her son out.

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