Margaret Alice Second Poems

All community-building initiatives are decried or sabotaged,
South Africa’s divided, works against itself, corruption’s rife;
infrastructure, government facilities, railways, electricity and
water and roads decay lacking investment and maintenance -
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The luxury to cry about disappointment - all my own
fault, prepared gifts for the Duchess but as she passed
I was in an Arabic incident, converting the picture of a
document into typed script for checking by a group of
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The third eye grants a knowledge divine
says a Sanskrit Manuscript, with the light
of a million lustrous suns, today scientists
suppose the pineal gland to be the third eye
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Sweet, so sweet the air-con revenge: finally
the system is fixed, I'm purple and blue with
the cold in the office, everyone huddles in all
kinds of garments, we had complained a lot
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A wonderful life, serving his fellow-man
the only fear of old age is death seen as
non-being until resurrection at the end of
time to face his loving God – such sweet
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A change of perspective is the best way
to deal with depression due to tastefully
wrapped Christmas gifts with allergy-
causing honey, chocolate and cheese
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Kitchen turned into a war zone, books from
library making up for lack of colours removed
at your request, two wooden boards to lift
my books high for easy reading
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Aging is attitude: what you are when you are young
will come to pass as you age; the biggest problem
is this book was written by a pastor with years of
loving community service, he even served three
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And thus I've got the right to sing the blues
‘coz I'm brain-damaged & due to substance
abuse I often sleep on the cold hard tiles feet
freezing while wheezing with a blocked nose;
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My ability to interact with the world is zero,
ability to REACT to the world very low also

My ability to be touched by the world is al-
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