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An Old Man’s Story
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I write a page a day
In this simple story
I don’t know
What the ending is
I just
Write forward.
I used to write
In a fever dream
Like St. Paul
Blinded on the road
Now I squint
At street signs
And just
Write Forward.
I don’t know
What the ending is
It may take...
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Lo and Behold
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
Walking down Granville
I saw a djinn
Something out of
Arabian Nights
He was snapping at twigs
Like it was some perverse
Master’s
Last wish
Unrobed he was
Except for a pair of
Frayed
Jeans
And his bronze tits
Flapped
Undisturbed
In the winter
Wind.
The traffic flew by
Blind to all
Incongrous
Bells
Like this one...
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Screwball
(Copyright 2026 by Michael Walker)
I have been watching a lot of screwball comedies
Things from the 30s and 40s
Movies set in drawing rooms
And on ocean liners.
Cary Grant
Barbara Stanwyk
Irene Dunne…
Crashing roadsters
Tearing up checks
Dancing the lindy
I can imagine audiences
Laying down their quarter
Warming themselves in a life
As impossible
As their own
Escaping to that...
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Day 3
copyright 2026 by Michael Walker
I am going to
Get back on the horse
Although
I don’t know
What that horse is…
This is Day 3
And I wake up
To the same scraps of hours
I go and check the mail
It’s the same
Scraps of paper
No sound of hooves yet …
But I will not despair
I will NOT
Sucumb...
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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