Morgan Michaels Poems

My specialty is minding my own business.
I can't help it, it's a choice.
For example, I'm not really writing this.
You, mind-reader, read it, nevertheless.
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The Great Yogurt Hoax? Hmmm.
Yogurt not so good for you now as you once thought-
Soon we'll be told (by the experts) that anti-oxidants
Pare years from your store of years;
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What should his poet ask of Lord Apollo
on his feast day, as the first wine
flows darkly from the bowl?
Sardegnian fructitude?
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Like linen, dipped in blood
you stripped off soiled innocence, welcomed cleanly shame,
vowed to leave behind
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In trutina mentis dubio
Fluctuant contraria
Lascivous amor et pudicitia
Sed eligo quod video
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Conveniently, he inserted his number into the message with an invitation to call, so I didn't need to go online.

Next day I phoned. After some exploratory remarks and a mom update
we agreed to meet for dinner. I think we were both groping a bit and felt reassured. Everyone dreads the worst these days- from people and situations. They do nothing without thinking 'what if...'
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There were two of them. She did the talking. He had the same thing, she said, as her.Because of what she'd had and what he now had, she's had a hip replacement. It ran in the family. Her cousin had it, too. This was her brother and she was taking care of him- making sure things went alright.

Donnie peered at the downcast young man slumped in the chair across the desk.
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Out of the mists, day dawning- -
forms- turning slowly into women, nine of them.
'We know how to tell lies that seem true',
they sang, in chorus, to Hesiod,
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