Margaret Alice Second Poems

My universe has changed, with two Lois Lowry books on my
desk ‘Anastasia Has The Answers’ & ‘Anastasia’s Chosen
Career’ my Sputnik cockpit with controls to the Universe
is wholesome-filled with guaranteed goodness, and life
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Trapped in my translation, forgot blessings, scowled about my
life then followed guru’s advice - bring in more joy and delight:
started by walking to the shops, wrote a poem, and after doing
necessary things left translation dragon to mercy of Providence
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Feelings all bottled up, no discussing “Long Walk
to Freedom” autobiography of Nelson Mandela,
comparison with “Shantaram” forbidden, every-
thing precious to me kept secret to prevent you
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Stormed into the office, told the first colleague I met
how wonderful our first President, Nelson Mandela,
was for me; - she coldly replied, for me he was just
anther terrorist. I said I respected her views & left
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Page 118 of ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ - the more I read
the more I hate white Nationalists imposing irrational
and evil laws oppressing all other South African races;
I now wish this horrible, bitter, evil and selfish Dutch
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Due Restitution [REV.]

Instead of asking why they leave the Dutch Reformed
Church in droves, the question should be why doesn’t
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I am evil
as evil as can be
I am turning fifty three
and bad in your eyes
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The first thing’s a lovely
children’s book, I’ll reread
‘Johnny and the Dead’ please,
the second’s a cheap old-
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I need debriefing after reading Mandela’s
biography, I’m so disappointed in my own
people, the whole artificial made-up history
of Afrikaans-speaking people
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Breaking into the silence like pistol shots she
explodes her jo-jo, hey, jo, then the machine
gun fire as rapid syllables bubbles forth like a
wave breaking on the hallowed silence of the
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