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 Jun 2021 Winter
Lawrence Hall
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com  
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

                                Is Love Delivered by UPS?

            Wishing You and Yours a Happy and Holy Prime Day

All the empty boxes won’t go away
So I’m burning them outside after the rain
Automatic gunfire from the next road over
And is there a meaning in all of this?

We have mail-order cameras to protect
All the mail-order things that we don’t need
From the neighbors firing off rounds at dusk
Maybe at a menacing metaphor

All wants are now delivered to a home address -
And is love delivered by UPS?
To paraphrase E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," "O Alexa! O Alexa!"
 Jun 2021 Winter
Frances Raeburn
Don’t play
with the real people
in your life
they really are
rare
 Jun 2021 Winter
Wisdom Osikwemhe
I died.
I faded.
Like a dream, forgotten after wake.
I lost myself and you lost me too
Non-existent to you
To myself a ghost
I died.
But still I live,
Waiting to be revived.
Ignorant to the changes around me
A jaded memory, A forgotten name
I died.
Inside and out.
 Jun 2021 Winter
J
Chaos
 Jun 2021 Winter
J
Little did she know,
I love her
and the chaos
in her heart.
Looking out to know.
Firm like a tree to grow.
An addict without.
A change of scenery.
 Jun 2021 Winter
Lil Moon Moon
Hero
 Jun 2021 Winter
Lil Moon Moon
The hero dies at the end of this story
We all know how it goes
The same old song goes on and on
So strap in and raise your chins
Its a scene we already know
The hero dies at the end of the story
And were left wondering
What even was the point of it all?
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