Poem I wrote

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Sonic Boom 1970
Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker
A sonic boom
Sounding in the
Faultless sky
Always made us kids look up
From prison ball and hopscotch
Treasure Island
And
Hardy Boys…
We would always look up
Anxiously
Up over mother's
White
Clothesline flags
Discard our
Jacks
Our dominoes
The world around us
From Mrs. Folger’s
Sunflowers
All the way to Eddy Street
Ruptured
And...
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Poem I wrote

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The Day Before
Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker
My inbox tells me
I can get a free Trump
Whiskey glass
Just in time
To toast
Tomorrow’s
Carnage…
My inbox tells me
I can get a
“Donfather” tee
One-hundred percent cotton Chiner
His stern face
Around a cigar
So I can shiver in the cold
As he puts his palm
Once again
On an
Unfranchised
Bible…...
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A Poem I Wrote

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Today

(Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

Today

I wrote

A mealy

Poem

Yesterday

I wrote

The greatest

Russian Novel

Of all

Time

Who knows

How this works

Or why?

Nothing has changed

The clock

Still ticks

In the same

Metronomic

Way

The cat

Purrs

Like snow

A candle

Gutters

In the window

Today

Leaches

Into tomorrow

Who knows

How this works

Or why...

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