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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A Found Poem From Roger Ebert


(1) You clean and clean, but there’s still blood all over the place; (2) You know you have committed a murder, but you are not sure quite how or why; (3) You know you have forgotten a small detail that will eventually get you into a lot of trouble…

There are a lot of monsters that could be added...
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