Mark Nichols Poems

By Mark Nichols & Mehnaz Hoosein

Kismet kismet aye meri kismet
Tu mera lamha aye meri kismet
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By Mark Nichols & Mehnaz Hoosein

Don't make me your quick fix
I'm not your handy man
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Went down to the market
To get my fortune read
The guy at Tenzing Momo
Well this is what he said
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THE GREETERS
Shiva, Isis, Gaia, Jesus, Baal
Mother Earth, Father Sun, welcome one and all!
Pantheistic, Atheistic, Muslim, Jew and Christian
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Everyone walk me hand in hand
To a place you think I might crack
Everyone push me into the well of despair
And take the shirt off my back
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You are everything
I ever imagined
On the outside of myself
Collected
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It's time now to lift a hand and set this plot in motion
Tragedy has a way of testing a man's devotion
For he who in his daily life might never ever pray
Will say 'Hail Mary' if a bomb's to come his way
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Put the dust
And the crackers in a jar
And walk as far as you can
Until you get to a place where
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Will you love me if I'm too abstract?
Will you leave if I'm unclear?
Ants and lobster
Fish and melting clocks
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Each time we started with a meditation
A shout out to the heavenly within
'Look here! Show your faces! '
We begged from the hill
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