Margaret Alice Poems

Mental cramp, when deciding, all muscles
tense, sharp pain shooting through my head
burning in my ears, suffocating slowly, forcing
me to stop, become catatonic, I need another
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Overjoyed with a new computer just bought,
a laptop, my old one’s broken; I was stuck
in an icy kitchen with a go-nowhere screen,
now I can type where I want, in front of TV,
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When I first wondered about black eternity
if I had never been born taking on physical
form with five senses to take in the world
around me, shattered by the idea of non-
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Studying an uplifting text, contemplating spiritual
solutions to every problem, smiling with the bliss
of the uninformed - we create our own problems -
how to solve them applying advice from a Cloud
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Junior was lucky tonight, I could scarcely eat a bite
of the meat I prepared, Scotch fillet, I never tried my
hand at that, your new red pan did not help, it did not
taste nice, I fed my dinner to the cat and our Jack
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An invisible string to thread my small crystal
beads, even Tiaan helping because I cannot
see to do it myself, it would take me a hundred
years at least to complete one string
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Squalls of noise as the voices rise and fall
because the administrative personnel are
the only people with rights on earth, singing
at the top of their voice, discussing whatever
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For the first time in ages we used the time
we had to ourselves, I enjoyed lying in your
lap, a lovely massage, you claimed if you were
an Eskimo in a frozen land your people would
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I shall always admire mother’s ability to
surmount obstacles to her dreams, those
things being my dad, my siblings and I
grandma Alice and the rest of the family
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Pitch-black despair, hopeless, nothing to
look forward to, all ideas fail to entice, the
TV series I watched drove all dreams from
my heart, made me feel ashamed of being
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