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Once, When I Was A Kid

copyright 2025 by Michael S Walker


Mrs. Baker

Our next-door neighbor

Had this little picture book

I truly wanted

A souvenir

From the Museum

Of Pompeii

All in Italian

With black and white pictures of

People and animals

Somehow

Violently changed

Into clay.

Such a strange artifact…

I worked three days

In her basement

Sweeping

Shoveling

Hauling 40 years...
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Late December

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker


Everything is

Failure

Everything is

Disaster

A cup of

Soup

While the

Great Chain of Being

Collapses…

What can I do

About this?

What can I say?

I am just a little boy

Drawing pictures

A drunk

In a shooting gallery

What can I proffer

To the car crash

About to happen

The car crash

About to happen...
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