Margaret Alice Poems

Then I woke up
in a strange place
in bed wearing pyjamas
get up! get up!
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Bonjour, Mon Petit Prince
do you still have the same cube -
a wall in the desert, where you wait
for the snake to effect your return
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Attending the PMDS workshop today
a 46-page page performance document
to be discussed in detail, I opened it and
closed it immediately, more boring than
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Doctors in Government Hospitals are striking
shouts a terrible State, “Neglecting your
patients, you callous murderers! ”
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What have I been drinking tonight
Port Tawny aged in oak casks, hours
outside, philosophizing about life,
now it’s too late to start reading
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Mental Exercise

Look into empty places,
listen within silences,
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Malagasy, the sing-song melodious language
of Madagasikara, with the motto Tanindrazana
Fahafhana, Fandrosoana - Fatherland, Liberty
Progress – under President Marc Ravalomanana
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Sam came in yesterday, where’s your mobile, that
branch of a tree, asked he, still remembering my
decorations, shells and angels and fairies, how
delicious to see him again
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Taking my attention away from unwanted
things, surfing the Internet, listening to the
soothing tones of rational voices; following
logical reasoning explaining various recipes
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Read my book ‘Aeons, The Beginning of Time’ up to
page one-four-nine - the magical story of Cosmology,
making notes, fatigue, eyes wandering, seeking relief
on the Internet, chancing upon poetry, infusing the soul
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