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Best Poems From
MARTIN LOCHNER
(28 April 1978)
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sacrifici lillies-the deceit
You made love to him, giving him Mary
his stench still hovering over your perfume
Ripping me from our past, your thighs
eyes averting like a drooping bouquet
Once you were my earth and your seed
sprouted pink blossoms on my lips
You fool! sleeping I sang to you, wishing
a harvest of dreams and small feet laughing
but my eternity
you gave to the hyena
saying sorry
You Fool! sleeping I sang to you, wishing
a harvest of dreams and small feet laughing
lilies slaughtered in the abattoir
daffodils growing in rich sewerage
this is the bloodied gift you offer
the soiled token you want to return
Love plays your token
on a splintered vinyl
it cries through the static its over!
Martin Lochner
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Security Officer
Hooded men shot him
Emptied a magazine on a ironed shirt
Fear crept in
The smell of slaughter
Hot blood, serrated stainless steel
White bulging eyes like a Merino sheep
Martin Lochner
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The Children Of God
a sweet eyed
boy stared at me
standing swaying
at a township crossroad
ripped, dirty
clothing that gave up along time
ago to be washed, mended and to
be cared for
rewarding me
with Gods perfect white smile
that gestured nothing more
then a simple impoverished
goodwill
I smiled back and cursed
the boot full with Christmas grocery shopping
and LED rainbow lights
Martin Lochner
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Absolving Absolutes
when all truth is discovered
and the rooster announces the morning
then it still amounts to this:
eat, pine and shave
knowing this you can either
rave deliriously or wriggle in depression
I chose to love till the death
Martin Lochner
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