Margaret Alice Poems

I choose to make you true as I cannot
live with the alternative, when there is
no you I die inside and a dead me is
no use to anyone, least of all myself
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Also, einverstanden, alle zusammen: our dachshund
is called Bruno, I willingly give up Schumi for this, he
looks like an angel and slept in my lap, I read a book
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell which
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One dream, just one dream a week to keep
me alive, one dream, just one dream a week
to keep me sweet, does not matter how often
I die, does not matter that I often cry, just one
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Then the whole Spiel disintegrated into a
‘synthesized global spirituality’ where each
religion supplements the others – a utopia
that sounds so boring - and worse
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Lived without ideals and dreams
till the age of nine, then discovered
Planet Serfontein and the elevating
effect of dreams sublime, for the first
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Everybody is laughing and having fun; Idols is
on and contestants are making fools of themselves,
while I’m quietly getting an attack of anxiety done;
feeling completely confused, the stack of books at
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Giddy with excitement I gamboled
about, so happy my filing was done
so glad to talk to someone who re-
turned from a far-way place
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Sense of Humour

Isn’t if funny how I just told you yesterday
I always get along with everybody then
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Some authors become my secret friends,
they tame my mind, catch my attention,
make my thought stream stop and
concentrate on one beautiful point in time
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Shamefaced

Oh, brilliant, another day of misunderstanding –
just what I need to calm shattered nerves,
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