Margaret Alice Second Poems

“People claiming I married for money - I'd hardly
call settling balance of 2nd hand car worthwhile”
[ice-cold parasite, R 200 000 spent when her
maintenance and debt taken into account,
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What is the meaning of life? This is the question
asked in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy;
according to Douglas Adams there is none, but
a guru, Abraham, replies:
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It does not matter that leech claims she’s free of
guilt because the fact is she used hysterics and
tantrums to blackmail Gerhard into settling her
debts, she swindled him, changed marriage
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The truth will set you free – my insistence that she is a fraudster
prevented my nephew from feeling sorry for her and accepting
her orders to fix her car by getting a new battery and this made
it clear to the criminal who uses emotional blackmail to get her
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She claimed looking for comfort and love on arrival -
protection from her terrible debts, she wanted to marry
quietly after a week, the magistrate’s office no ado or
friends and family - I said go home, fix your life, only
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On social media daredevil-she openly declares
she does not believe in any Knight in Shining
Armour or marriage and love, she only believes
in cold cash, grab as much as she can and run
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Late afternoon and the swimming pool’s call, yesterday’s
plunge into its delicious ice cold was fun, looking ahead
to doing it again, but first come my chores – a happy one
is to buy a birthday present for my cheeky little daughter
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A Life Of Perfection
Seeing my twin sis like this, happy, shining and smiling;
she ascribes it to the show she has seen but I know it is
her wonderful new relationship with an understanding
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Realising the sun-shade did not keep the sun off my face
and worried that a hat would leave the few feathers that
serve as hair on my head in terrible disarray, I stopped
taking the delightful walks I used to take every day
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After Sunday newspapers I feel depressed, ‘African time’
Redi Tlhabi suggests ruled again at the Economic Forum
in Cape Town without courtesy of cancellations* or the
protagonists arriving on time – and she ended by saying:
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