Margaret Alice Second Poems

I don't mind not doing anything - all I want
is a dream; just finding an ideal that fires
my mind and fills my heart would be such
a delight - anything - visions of swimming
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Anxiety, a mental state without explanation, poisons
the beauty of life and leads to a never-ending quest
for relief: at night I recount my blessings, the safety
and well-being which led human beings to colonise
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Finally found where I am at home, among the
recreational drug users who use any and every
drug they discover to get high, knowing they are
growing immune to the dose and prescriptions
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High in a tower, high in the hot African sun, two
little translators have had enough as the scourge
of self-assessment lurks after the Government
had curtailed the requisite service to keep all State
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There was a young man, gifted beyond measure,
his paintings and creative writing exceptional and
learning ability far beyond the norm, but plagued
by anxiety caused by his perfectionist tendencies
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Marching at full speed to where I'm picked up
after work, caught in a melée of charging figures
and taxis who wait at green lights then drive off
as soon as the robot turns red bearing down on
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I enjoy my coffee with cream and walk in the sun
with my parasol, this beautiful umbrella festooned
with pictures from Frozen on which I hang scarves
and strings with beads, singing as I go - accepting
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Trump's immigration ban on seven countries fulfils
Obama's policies and is correcting Barack's moral
deficiencies which empowered bigots and fascists
and disarmed victims - the Obama administration
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Muslim Extremists declared war on the West,
jihadists launch attacks in Europe & America,
suicide bombers enjoying themselves as they
will wake up in Paradise with their Virgins
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It's amazing that the Killer Sisters Self-Righteous
and Strange-Love know they are Infallible and
possess Ineffable Information that can never be
accessed by little Postulants like me, they can
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