Margaret Alice Poems

The lonely malnourished Spanish man who lives
by himself in a house without a kitchen practising
Franciscan-learnt Latin; the lonely widow offering
Nicholas Shrady a walking stick, the poor people in
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This must mean you have reached adult manhood
the way you have perfected the poker face, when you
announced Mom, I did bad at school; I saw a dead-
pan expression of despair in your eyes, mirroring
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My biggest fear since I was small has
ever been fear of boring nothingness
I commiserated with the animals for
their confinement to the here and now
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Promote yourself and your artistry
as an artist I sing of my own liberty
and I will not bow to your demands
that I promote the words I chose to
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Nicolas Shrady; sceptic on a pilgrimage,
following holy trails to religious shrines,
seeking the spiritual within the physical –
realising he was ‘an outsider, a passive
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Found a German version of Charlie’s Angels!
Clinically precise and passionlessly exact
criminals kill one person after another, no
Latin excitement, no sensual French gestures,
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The cosmos splits into parallel universes
in which all conceivable outcomes of all
events take place; the universe is a part
of a larger multiverse
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“Life is only about what you are,
right now, in this red-hot fresh
moment emitting.”
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Brought work documents home, letters by
disgruntled dissidents, a Wu-chu Kung
Fu expert offering a show for the 2010
World Cup opening ceremony
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Tiaan went off for a Potjiekos*-competition, armed
with a recipe and his dad’s advice, with vegetables,
mutton and cumin in a cool bag, he is growing into
a great outdoor chef, gaining experience, he has
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