Stewart McKenzie Poems

Sitting quietly

Engine idling
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REM, the drowsy otter,
Slips into a sleep pool
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Higamous Hogamous
Woman's monogamous
Hogamous Higamous
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Bring back the draft

No exceptions
Not for age
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Road mirror recedes before me
On my way to Shadow Mountain
Sliprock scramble into thin air
Up on Shadow Mountain
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They tell me that I should wish for
My dreams to come true

They don’t know my dreams
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I am an old jug full of memories
Full to the brim
My white matter all mylenated
New memories spill over
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Whisper whisper whisper

Children exchanging naughty secrets
Adolescents sharing sex and mockery
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They said “that can’t be a poem
For it has neither rhyme nor rhythm”
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Orwell said 'shorter is better'
Churchill 'old is the best'
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