Margaret Alice Poems

Feeling unsettled after a visit by a racist
expressing his disgust with life as it is, was
and ever will be, a typical pessimist who
hides his feelings behind the grinning mask
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Copenhagen Interpretation of wave-particle duality

Quantum theory is mechanics
on small atom scales where
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My fears are growing - as I know
it would - you are on a trip - you
who know exactly how life should
go - while I am making it up as I
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Confessions of a Crocodile

I Feel Guilty
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Typing a translation while Nici is giving me a
manicure, applying black polish to my nails,
laughing as she spills on my fingers, it looks
like I fell into an ink-pot, I give up one-hand
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Saturday 27 September 2008

Such wonderful sunshine, gilding trees, illuminating
ridges, driving through a shimmering golden syrup
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Why does love hurt so much –
yet we can’t give it up - I love
people totally undeserving, I feel
sympathy for people locked up in
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A wonderful new leave form,
a magnifying glass for the print
so minuscule, a plot of devilish
proportions
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Listened to the song “To Dream The Impossible
Dream” - for the first time registering the words,
to love at a distance, chaste and pure; I love truth,
wisdom and integrity, beauty, honour and loyalty,
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Watching Dingaka, Jamie Uys,
African culture, justice, gum-boot-
dancing, tula-tu-tula-baba-lullaby
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