Much More Exciting & French Into English & Kissing In Public Poem by Margaret Alice

Much More Exciting

Resigning our assessment forms, originals lost
by Human Resources, we the incumbents who
aren’t recumbent or redundant as yet – though
the desire is there, I assure you – in between
reading to my amazement that the President
of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will take part
in a procession marching through Mugrabi
Gate in Jerusalem, as arranged by my
inspired Muslim… This is too much,
I have to rescind all I said about life
being boring: It’s much more
exciting than I ever
guessed


French Into English

Have you ever looked for chocolates so sweet
it could sweep you right off your feet, literally,
I can fall down and sleep after eating a whole
bar of chocolates, wake up and immediately
start looking for more – with lunch coming up
and me being stuck in an office with no place
to go, I’m going to eat that bar I bought and
enjoy falling asleep right here where I am

Then I will be rested enough, though sluggish,
to do all the boring stuff I’m supposed to be
doing, reading a Muslim booklet sent to
President Sarkozy of France, why we never
shall know, Allah’s messenger suddenly got
busy and I’m the lucky fellow that gets to
translate all for President Mbeki, sure to
be much better off for reading and dreaming

About Nashkurallah, feeling bright enough
after half a bar, I’m ready to start converting
French into English, Alhamdullilah


Kissing In Public

Invitation to sessions of Information
promoting awareness of HIV-AIDS –
inviting an HIV-positive speaker to
address employees – food-packs for
attendees, it’s like a trip to Kilimanjaro
backpacks, Macintoshes, The Way
Forward…

We shall be educated on the
dangers of free love, there is a
fine for kissing in public if you’re
under sixteen - but they are the
only ones who want to do it
at all