Supernumerary Poems | Examples


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Money

Wear not the garment of lack,
Wear not the garment of debt,
Wear not the garment of poverty, 
Prioritised your business.

Look for money, 
Money is a necessity, 
Money is happiness, 
Money is respect, 
Be money oriented, 
Thy earthly life involve money, 

Believe not the motivational speakers,
they speak fallacy, prevarication and lead 
many to the realm of poverty..

Chase more money, don't stop!! 
Let thy wealth be supernumerary, 
Make thyself known by thy wealth, 
let thy wealth be ponderous..

Money is the root of evil they said, 
let me be evil in the forest of the devil
and chew the wealth with the devil,  
let the realm of wealth call me Daddy....

A Flutter of Demons

My demon is quite a lovely thing,
In Spring it springs up
and in the rainy wash
of an April flowering
it warbles from its smokey cherub throat
singing tenderly
of once womb-wet times,
of subsequent sailing days
in the bowels of an angel.
An infant sprung
from the very eighth of April
and he half man - half a goat,
then yet another half fluttering at its side
for indeed that fluttering imp
has its very own tiny demon
a supernumerary half-imp
that in turn has a better or worse half.
Hard to grasp
are these strange functions
of an earthly man 
and yet I know
that all these fluttering halves
loves me just as best
as any demon can.

Perfectionist Is a Neurotic

showering in the virgin rain
apparent angles of discrimination
perfectionist is a neurotic
she was dancing shamanically
wild rejoicing in the
birth of a wild 
mushroom
purulent phlegm is a tonic too
supernumerary bands of light
no one is perfect
nothing is perfect
it is disease
she was sleeping now
at the shore of peace

10.39 am
july 19 2016


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