Morgan Michaels Poems

Or inscrutable Leonardo
Or one of those Renaissance boys
Or somebody else whose surname,
Conveniently, ends in O.
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Yes, they were deeply flawed
in ways that no longer matter-
escapees of a Past
whose injustice they decried
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Fire, fire, clay, clay, wool,
Iron, iron, iron, wine, GOLD,
Silver, silver, copper, tin, tin,
A little arsenic, the flute,
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Beauty, bonhommie
wanting one, regret it
wanting two, forget it
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The man in the mirror
despite much education
became a thinker
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Over the sounding foam
gliding in with no cry
from dimness, rides a seagull,
yellow oars shipped-a
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May I be happy as I now am sad
in coming times- it only seems fair
that those now sad shall presently be glad.
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I'm goin' to Chicago
I'm goin' back that way, someday
I'm headin' back to Chicago.
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