Struggling
Michael Walker (copyright 2026)
Struggling struggling
Everybody
struggling…
But don’t you know
this is a Golden Age?
And isn’t your 401k
blossoming?
Struggling struggling
Everybody
struggling…
But don’t you know
A-for-da-bi-lity
is a hoax?
Just like global warming?
Just like
Integrity?
Struggling struggling
Everybody
struggling…
But don’t you know
this is a peaceful age?
The war ended
fifty-three times now
Until the next
news-cycle…
He was the man. Hamlet is one of the greatest things ever written.
I always liked walking home from school
in the fall
and finding a sidewalk
littered with buckeye seeds
I would stuff my pockets
with those wooden baubles
and later
line them up on my dresser
the window ledge
like a hoarder
like a pirate with treasure...
Now
all I ever think about is money
how to get it
my lack of it
when surely there...
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Underwater
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I saw
The Creature
with 3-D
glasses
I saw him
pick up
Julie Adams
I watched
bats
fly out of a cave
in my popcorn
I watched
The Rialto
underwater
in
1954.
I played a guitar once
in a guitar shop
Its body fashioned
from the floor boards
of Jimi Hendrix’s
childhood
That was a good day
too
I...
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Every Peace of Mind
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I met him on a bus
He was going to
New Mexico
Abandoned his furniture shop
in Minnesota
Things hadn’t been the same for him
since he left the army
a thousand centuries ago …
I met her on a plane
She was going to
Toronto
Was going home to see
Her grandmother who was dying...
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They are no longer
As thick as thieves
Or murderers
Which they both are.
So tell me
Where do we turn now
What maple leaf
Or gold display
Will staunch the bleeding
Turn the lies into water?
We are all aboard
The USS Wrecking Ball now
A tour we all
Signed up for
Because you know
All our problems solved
Day one
But I never...
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No one in the world really gives a shit if I live or die.
