Margaret Alice Second Poems

Determined to continue my eye-defining
project I now apply eyeliner from another
pencil, been forever in my cupboard - &
with eyes watering notice it is lip-liner -
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This deep wound is proof that what you thought
IS true, no special power seems to look out for
you except to extend your life; anything feared
manifests eventually, helping you find requisite
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A deflated Monday reality and I fail blowing
life into it, all is boring, dull, and listless; my
eyes usually manage to bestow magic but
not today - my ears hear nothing but a soft
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Discovered a new sweetener half the cost of the real
McCoy to be toxic; seemed chocolate was getting me
down but all the time it was this beastie, every cup of
sweetened tea weakened me, switched off my brain
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Still under influence of Lactosa, Sucralosa and Leucine, the
three evil sisters Selatine, Princess of Darkness and Rotten
Teeth, employs; in a shop I saw fleecy tops in beautiful pink
shades of cerise, fuchsia, lavender-magenta which became
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A long, long time ago the crocodile read personality is our
own creation, could be made into anything we are able to
imagine; thus we're freed to think positive thoughts about
ourselves - & she dreamed of being a dragonfly, hovering,
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Visiting with Tinker Bell, my twin sis, she is
sunny & practical, does everything herself;
I'm Periwinkle - living in the snow though I
adore the sun myself - together we've still
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While I live in a world of ideas my sister lives
in a world of events; I ponder imponderables,
or try to, watch ‘Back To The Future' movies
speculating with characters about an ‘art' of
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An Ice Princess returned to her still and peaceful
frozen kingdom; too much humanity in her sister's
sunny land of chaotic kaleidoscopic patterns of re-
curring debts and random decisions which flowed
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I only wanted a bag camouflaged in black to stash
the illegal trash I drag to work: water, a book, extra
shoes, my fan, a DVD - but it was way too small an
amount for a credit card transaction so I had to buy
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