Margaret Alice Poems

Watching Dingaka, Jamie Uys,
African culture, justice, gum-boot-
dancing, tula-tu-tula-baba-lullaby
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Life abounds with unexpected happy endings
more successful romances than I ever supposed:
Consider the life of Lady Ellenborough, born Jane
Elizabeth Digby, a gay divorcee in eighteen thirty
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Stuck next to the fax machine with escape
in my hand – a Visual Universe Dictionary
presenting an overhead view of our lovely
galaxy in yellow in blue
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Contradicting Ideas

In a love-hate relationship with the
Internet, for every beautiful thought
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Sterregordels

Cosmology in Afrikaans is an ode to joy, the
terms form sing-song strings with delightful
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Said the trilobite, an ancient fossil
called Flexicalymene, to the lychnobite,
a crocodile called Shahrazad, writing
at night while sleeping during the day
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Why didn’t you post a poem or two today,
what is this, a new campaign - Abstaining
From Entertaining And Educating Savage
Barbarians?
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It is amazing how the Children’s Encyclopedia
remains part of my life, I carry the ancient set
wherever I go, one day Tiaan decided
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How on earth do people lead
their lives without imagination
I am as ugly as sin, but with the
gift of imagination - I dream of
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Today my headache grew
toothache came to stay, strong
enough to make me call a dentist
my notes resemble those written
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