Margaret Alice Poems

My focus is gone, gone, gone, curry and
spice, a lovely dish, attacking my brain,
lethargy and fatigue drive me insane, can-
not concentrate at all, must find a way to
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Goodbye to today, nothing worked
everything turned out flat and grey
like the sky, menacing, tried to wake
up, overcome myself, staring at pic-
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I have never been able to come to terms
with unhappiness, I can’t exist, can’t live
when I’m depressed, when the here and
now makes me unhappy, I lose interest
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Nothing beautiful is ever lost, it lives in
our minds for eternity, the first time so-
mething happens it is already only a
mental exercise, however real it
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Tiaan curiously regarded the glitter gel ink scribbles
in my fairy dairy and coolly remarked that the shiny
blotches and curlicues were impossible to read, I
burst out laughing, it is true, when held under the
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I reminded her she was not around
when we were small, yet yesterday
before I’d even arrived to say goodbye
she’d already gone
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Alet, angelic being that she is, brought the DVD
now I can saturate myself in my memories, watch
Daan Retief give his rendition of a super-cool secret
agent, listen to Fanus Rautenbach’s amused voice
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Brought my memory stick home
it wouldn’t open, cell phone left at
the office, library closed, a walk in
the garden, filigree trees etched
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Official documents, seeking acronyms to find the most
applicable meanings, enjoying the fun, ‘PNC’ mentioned
in the DRC* according to the Internet means
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You know so many things intuitively, understand the kids’
problems easily, you always manage to explain problems
with feelings, when I felt sidelined in their lives you told me
to watch out for the surprise – and there it was, a small
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