Margaret Alice Second Poems

There is so much I don't know and can't
do & learning it is boring, I would rather
gouge out my own eyes & then run my
head into a wall - leave reality to go to
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I have my new James Bond movie role
down pat, I'll be the old crone acting as
Doctor No's disciple; so when the bullet
is fired to kill the invincible James, he'll
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Even ifI'm not the most brilliant person
I have ever met - and why should I be,
what difference would it make to me -
content in the ice-blue square of cloth
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Second day without the medication and hallelujah,
I can see; so-long-out-of-focus eyes made me feel
like a blind and useless person, couldn't read well
enough to interpret terms and lines - as such I felt
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Guess who limped into the office this morning,
guess who limped out again even faster to the
nearest doctor to complain her foot's falling off,
ankle broken and ligaments burning with pain -
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32 degrees C inside, the desk is burning hot,
only ice on my foot keeps the pain away, the
building is heating up - an Apocalypse without
violence, just a quiet insistence on heat as my
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This headache is so endemic to my primitive crocodile
system seems it will accompany me to eternity, such
overwhelming fatigue - what if I feel the same in the life
after death, what if this is deep-seated psychological
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Today after frothing, sizzling & boiling over my brain
is thoroughly cooked and my head smoking with the
concentration; then a visual feat reading dense text
with double vision, ears ringing with tinnitus - arms
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You reached the end of your nursing skills,
one request too much, a damned demand
and you've had enough - from now on it is
doing things myself though you berate me
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Not what I aimed at originally, yet unexpected
synergy in the total effect is exciting, starting
with blue stripes and white dots in the corner,
next yellow flowers, then a green paper plate
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