Margaret Alice Second Poems

Tried to turn into a different person once - wearing a mask -
but it was too tight; a Fedora accomplished the miracle; with
it on my head I greet colleagues with a jaunty step, add high
heels and I’m Top Cat, for a while transforming as a carefree
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Went for a walk but stopped at the Chinese shop, a pink
sling bag, just big enough for my cell phone, a leathery
flower on the side, immediately abandoned my project of
buying a small fairy basket with shiny silver sequins, the
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Glimpsed the reason why spiritual people claim emotion
is just a chemical reaction which falls away when physical
is destroyed, why it’s irrational trying to be amazed by the
well-known as if you were a new-born babe – because
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Glimpsed the reason why spiritual people claim emotion
is just a chemical reaction which ends when physicality
ceases, why it’s irrational trying to be amazed with the
well-known as if a new-born babe, because the familiar
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Memories of Ria and Susan living on that plot, washing
my uncle’s car, he in the house busy cleaning a train set
with miniature trees, laying railway track and laughing as
the steaming locomotive clattered through the tunnel
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We moved away but you stayed - showed me where
our past lives played, the gutted street, our old church
adjoined to another faith, rutted avenue with tar almost
gone, dirt road to where we lived, everything different,
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You and I share a unique bond, a conspiracy to carry
your grandma’s image in our hearts - she’s special to
us; we shall also honour your granddad’s legacy, not
cry foolishly when he seems near death - nor wax
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Should have realised it might seem like the whole issue
is an attempt to gain attention, the sad part though is all
attention’s lost, I cannot even get service from a starved
shopkeeper, so it’s time to be rational and deal with the
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Sending out positive signals to attract affirmative events
works if being reassured makes one see ‘good’ things,
if it changes the world intrinsically its quite irrelevant, the
results are the same; time became thick treacle today,
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A wonderful day with rusks, sugared chocolate, wafers,
passing out repeatedly - yet glorious with life; suddenly
I talk like an organ again, fast and furious, no stopping
for breath - driving like a fiend, swerving right and left
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