Poems
by Mary Cresswell
Big Guy
I control the algorithm
hear the knocking at the gate?
Ask me and it might be given
you may serve to stand and wait.
Youve quite enough upon your plate
just trust me with the algorithm.
I aim skyward, I shoot straight,
nothing else between us and heaven.
Heres to you who think you rate:
Toe the line or die unshriven.
The lot of you can stand and wait.
I control the algorithm.
Apostrophe
Right-wing radical
sin of omission
or are you showing
hypersuppression?
Best kept in place
once counted quaint
youre often caught hinting
at that which you aint
Skippin n dancin
all round the page
age-old source of
proofreaders rage
Sometimes reduced
to merely a hint
who would have thought
there was so much life in t?
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