Margaret Alice Second Poems

Wearing a quiff - quite by chance, hairspray
and wet hair combined Forming a cowlick at
the sides - with allergy-red cheeks I look like
a third-rate performer in a sleazy vaudeville
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Found a website explaining problems with
American slaughterhouses; America the vile
whose politicians, their wives & the biggest
companies profit by subjecting powerless
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America protects its freedom beautifully, such
as the freedom to employ uneducated people
as chattels when they are properly informed,
'Working in this slaughter-house means YOU
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Incautiously moving things about - taking
down a miniature mermaid she breaks; I
keep broken figurines zealously as they
have symbolic value for me: just as life
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Motivation, inspiration lost, moon-boot
animosity towards box underneath my
desk serving as the throbbing, injured
left-foot rest, did my best, yet haven't
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The scammer took an article about quantum
physics, married it to home-spun spiritualism
based on superficial, misleading perceptions
of what is possible and why, then filled it with
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Why is it some try to pull the wool over our eyes,
abuse people to the face expecting them to buy
into the game, acting less respect, consideration,
claiming the term ‘love' used accords freedom to
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A country destroyed before by the moral bankruptcy of
a totalitarian regime's stupidity committing suicide as
their "Reigning Party" was held more sacrosanct than
the happy co-existence of nations within its borders
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Reading a Second World War Spy Novel,
each time a likeable character dies, a hot
flush of angered annoyance stops me and
I throw the book aside to stumble back into
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To be extraneous at work, listen to voices
proclaiming the overwhelming amount of
work, knowing I'm the cause of my own non-
participation, see my inability to string vivid
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