Morgan Michaels Poems

You cannot demand it,
respect. It must be given
and for good reason.

So you fashioned them
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Essence of Anger: the certainty
there can be no unselfish deed.
Could any such prove true
Anger (every spit of it) and its spawn
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Life's a dream of days
a bottomless well
a neverending phase.
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Morals: workable
modes, devised by culture to
hedge its survival.
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Delusion minus
culture minus remorse,
equals reality.
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Honor, yes,
Delusion, never,
Reality, yes, yes, yes.
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Remorse. Not so easy
to laugh about as Culture
but with Reason's help,
Possible
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'Nothing has value
unless it be useful, '
said Robinson Crusoe,
'so therefore be useful.'
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We can convict you
of nothing of which
you can not convict yourself
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It's not what you say
But what you do; It's not what you feel
but how you deal.
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