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Best Poems Written by John Holloway

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Whale Beach Morning (After)

Sun,
Awakening,
Remembering, sex, sounds, Miles in the Sky,
Jaegermeister, O, bad, when, warm, why?

‘Tis apres ski! o me, o my, not for these hot antipodae.
No more, forever. Now, just, the
Surf
And I.

Thundering,
Thud-thudding,
Slow,
On the beach.

Serendip morning, perfect,
Palm-fronded, dawning, blue and silver, beige sand,
Sizzling, the sound, aroma!
Bacon and banana, coffee, toast,

Scrambled egg, red-hot chili, O ginger, garlic,
Tomatoes! Heal me!
Sometime, later, sorbet, maybe,
What? Champagne? Oh no, please, save me.

Then, leaning, her
Swimsuit, slipping,
Succulent, breast, almost, tipping, rudely, slow,
No. She flips it, back in, coolly…oh?

Beach. Hangover,
Burping, yawning, randy.
Sun, dazzling, the shades, cool, handy,
Oh yes, smile…the…(sleep?)

Razzling has made me lazy,
My poisoned brain, short-circuiting, crazy, I
Sip, hair of dog, ill-considered,
Breakfast, Bloody, Mary.

Surf, thuds, on. And my head,
Points, to the sea,
Swimming, turning, catching it,
Wanting cleaning, cleansing, clearing, body

Surfing? No, slowing, sucked back, rolling,
Sinuses swizzled, I,
Tumbled and twirled, am,
Dumped. By the first, little, shore-break, of the morning.

Then, slowly, recreated,
Finned, crawling and gasping like
The first air-breather, but
Back, on that vibrating beach,

I smile.

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Metaphysics of Marriage

Some biologist or perhaps romantic engineer
may have found it in the insert, turn, genetic
Click and lock of our male and female union

The shining, lubricated slide of parts 
offered up, plunged and seated does
Seduce - but more in them than us

For in these angels' perfect fit
and finish true
Marriage 
exists.

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Enough

Read my son could grow.
With in his soul a hole.
God knows what holed and sunk in me.
Or where's my girl, are we still three?

Sometimes. I fear. We're lost. At sea.
Oh God. Oh please. Just let it be.

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Love (Shoots From the Hip)

when doubt hurt anger
rise between us
when the and in you and me
may change to versus

then love smiles first
and asks questions later

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Betterlovedatholeysailingboat

Why does our relationship exist man?
Sympathetic conditions.
Sympathetic conditions.
Just like the sun and the earth.

We can imagine a different kind.
But this one exist, tra-la.
But this one exist tra-la.
It the one that we got man.

For our kids there is never an other.
No, no other one. No-one.
No. No other one. None. None.
No other one. No other.

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You. Gaia! Ugoddedit. (Ufixit)

yougaiayougoddit
ugaiauGODdit
you godded it you play it
uarhythmicreggaeditmadeloveunrhymeditfrom
theholeall

nowugodit
umaditgodamit
you godded it
nowuplayit

asitlays
sosweetb4ya

waiting
for god
knows what

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