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Best Poems From
MARK R SLAUGHTER
(1957)
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Our Mutual Fun
I love to moan -
Just whinge and groan -
That's what I always do;
And then complain
To be a pain -
I do it just for you!
And in return, you nag at me
Then prattle on in ecstasy -
Throwing dishes at my head,
Til it's time to go to bed.
When morning comes we start again:
You set about me with your cane,
Thrashing wildly as I scream, 'Oh
Darling you are such a dream! '
'Tis all good fun, these little fights,
Those nasty spats and rowdy nights,
The 999's and plaster cast -
Our squabbling sure is
Unsurpassed!
Mark R Slaughter
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Twelve-String Blues
Cigar
O how she fogs
the room
lil' Betelgeuse
reddens on the draw
she's parked
tucked inside the dryness
of my mouth
Detuned courses
ring to fingers
steel blues
cools the air
I'm under call
of axe
we're mates
bending out a bass
I hammer on
to drift
I, BLANK-FACE
whisky-honed black-eyes
cruise the abalone
adirondack airs the tone
to life
She sings!
my only need -
a dozen strings
Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2012
Mark R Slaughter
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When Science Falters
Ologies and theories;
Hypotheses and queries;
Inventions,
Intentions,
Demolish the world.
Mark R Slaughter
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Not Human
Steely carcass eyes me down
In grit of stance, without romance.
Mulling or reasoning do not exist
In yammering circuits:
You do your job without recourse
With focused aim on driving force.
I just evanesce
Beneath your shining might, regress.
But do you weep or even care?
Have you humour, wish to share?
Do you suffer mental strain,
Let wine enthral, succumb to pain?
Are you graced with living flesh
In sensuous skin,
With heartening pulse to underpin?
Are you blessed with colleagues wise -
Thoughtful patrons to advise?
Irrelevant, ' is all I see conveyed,
To force me ponder while dismayed:
You're naught in constitution;
Automaton institution;
Creative destitution
Devoid of resolution:
Alas, you are not human.
Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2009
Mark R Slaughter
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