Simplistic Thinking
Michael S Walker (copyright 2026)
Simplistic thinking
Giving oxygen
To fire
Simplistic thinking
Framing policy
Black vs white
Good vs evil
Jesus vs the Devil
No nuance
No complicated
Issues
No quarter
The army vs the
Enemy
The Rapture
vs
The Future
A Holy War…
Simplistic thinking
Giving oxygen
To fire
To The Reader
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
Some people
Wear it as a badge
Of honor
That they don’t
Read
Books books books
I don't know
I think the glacial pace
Of all those lines
Is the balm
We need
Desperately
Right now…
A Drunkard’s Daily
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
There are no miracles
There is only waking up
In the grey afternoon
To the grim
Impossible
Maze
That is your life…
Hovering
Over a toilet
Cooking an egg
Staring out a window
At the funeral
Home.
There are no miracles
No love
At first sight
No Noble prizes
Unless
They are bought.
Time to start drinking...
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henrythevamp:
My poem "Yardwork" is in this journal. Just got my complimentary copies.
Alone In A Diner
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I wish these people would slow down
To talk occasionally
Instead of throwing out
Sugar-coated cliches
Hurrying
To the
Time clock
Work is
Overrated
And I
Need
A
Goddamn
Job
As I sit in
This restaurant
Wishing I could order
The
Beautiful
Waitress
Instead of
A bowl
Of chile
I probably will leave
Unfinshed …
Gone
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
The gift is gone
She said
Our love
Is gone
I thought about that truth
And then
Went outside
To
Smoke…
The kids next door
Were building
A snow fort
Enthusiastically
Magically
That too
Will soon
Be gone
I thought
As I lit
Another cigarette
And then I thought
Of that old
Violent Femmes
Song
Gone daddy gone
The...
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Dear Donald J Trump,
If you were an eight-year old playing these fantasy vituperative games of yours in some bedroom, well, that would be one thing. But you are supposedly the most powerful man on this planet. All your absurd and addled plans, all your vindictive tariffs, all your boasts and empty rhetoric DO have consequences in the REAL WORLD. Somehow, inexplicably, you have managed...
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It Is
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I always hated this
But it is what it is
The window
Held together
With duct tape
The cat
Vomiting up
Fur
Balls
The cancer
Out of
Remission
There is no religion
Or philosophy
Beyond human frailty
And greed
It is
What it is
Shadows on a
Giant
Screen
A horse thrown
In a
Steeplechase
It is what...
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Snow
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
It is snowing
It was
Snowing
Now
It is
Spring
And the trees
Are snowing
Petals
You are
An
Angel
In
The
Snow
And I think about you
As I walk
Through all
The
Immutable snows
Your whiteness
How we fell down
On the snow-white
Bed
The house
Encircled
By
Snow …