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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 …
Can We?
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
Can we go away?
Can we come back again?
Can we follow a common thread
To all the oceans
Of the world?
This is my prayer
Even though
I don’t
Pray
Anymore..
You are my species
But I don’t get this
Cliff
Anymore
This unraveling thread
This multitude
Of
Marginal
Polluted
Rivers
Can we go away?
Can we...
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All The Decisisions
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I can’t remember
I can’t decide
The trees above me
Are making
All
The decisions
The bare blue
Framework above me
Is making
All
The decisions
As I plod on
In slushy
Melting
Gravity
Some dome above me
Is making
All
The decisions
I can’t remember
I can’t decide
Got conveniently lost
On my way
To the...
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Muse
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I tried to find you
You were not there
I searched in bars
Movie theaters
Book stores
You were not there
I have reached the end of this journey
Lost frightened
You are not there
I wish you well
My implacable muse
But you are not
Here…
Muse
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I tried to find you
You were not there
I searched in bars
Movie theaters
Book stores
You were not there
I have reached the end of this journey
Lost frightened
You are not there
I wish you well
My implacable muse
But you are not
Here…
Dichotomy
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I thought you were
A flower
You thought you were
A shadow
I thought you were
A diamond
You thought you were
A coal chute
I thought you were
A dancer
You thought you were
A cripple
I thought you were
A scholar
You thought you were
The village idiot
We played this stupid game
Back and forth
For...
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