Margaret Alice Poems

In a state of emotional apathy,
single-minded focus on reading my
book, lost interest
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Of redeeming
the phantom himself
lifting him up
from loneliness
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(Suzi Malin 'Love at first Sight')

Suzi Malin says how love
is based on observation,
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I’m convinced that the karma I have to carry,
laid upon me by the Western heritage while
being born in Africa, where maize is the staple
and I’m allergic up to suffocating; is the result
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Eating in a new restaurant where the chips were
sprinkled with spices; I should have sent it back,
but I didn’t; now another sleepless night with my
back and neck in a terrible knot, stomach burning
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The purpose of life is to learn to use the left brain’s limitations –
not to escape from them – in the growing problem of consciousness:
Transcendental Meditation can help us escape one-dimensional reality,
but a total focus on the right brain leaves us incapable of mastering life
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Dear Dad, you inoculated me against society,
your unconventional stance and insistence on
total honesty makes it impossible for me to play
society’s masquerades with any form of impunity
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Happiness, to me, is to look with the eyes
of purity, to confer beauty to what you
see – the way You look at Me;
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I dare not love as much as I can,
actually nobody does – because
if we did, our hearts would burst;
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Dunne’s theory is that there is a time one, two
and three – ad infinitum – with an infinite
number of me’s corresponding to each
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