WELCOME

I hope you enjoy reading from this collection

as much as I enjoyed writing it.

(more poems in 'SAO' by Michael Amor on Kindle

an overland adventure tour of South America)

Blockhead

"No-one but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."

                                                             Samuel Johnson

OK so I'm a blockhead !

What makes a piece of writing into a poem?

If there isn't any rhyme or at least repeating rhythm,

it's just pretentious shredded prose and not a proper poem.

CHEAP

What, these days, can you buy for 5p ?

Well, after reductions at Sainsbury

a loaf of sliced bread actually !

Not cheap enough ! Because, you see,

the birds in my garden will get it for free.

My God, she stunned in her white bikini

glowing against her deeply tanned body

(although it might have been better hinted

then having a smudge of pubic hair printed

and embroidered nipples aren't so seemly)

and then I realised - it's not a bikini.

TWEETS 29

The unexpected is happening so often

I'm beginning to expect it.

I really hate the winter !

And it's actually still October !

Much disco music is rhythm without tune

as much coition is fucking without love.

I don't believe in any god

so clearly cannot pray to one.

The best I can do is plead with fate -

please, please let her be well,

please let it not be too late.

The problem with older women is that

for sake of five minutes physical friction

one might endure 23 hours 55 minutes

of verbal friction.

How dull a woman's body is compared

to all the gorgeous finery she wears -

clothes in their infinite variety,

shoes, hats and gloves, scarves, handbags, jewellery,

perfumes and painted nails, coiffured hair

and make-up enough to make men stare.

So how would merely being nude attract

as much attention as when dressed ? In fact

how could the monotone of naked flesh,

whether firm or flabby, wrinkled or fresh

yet offer anything clothed beauty lacked?

Anticipation of the sexual act !

In those societies where nakedness

is normal, only youthful shapeliness

might raise excitement; older nudity

tends to sag and wobble apology.

Without an invitation to intercourse

most female bodies fail to impress.

Marriage is also nakedness, revealing

character more than body, concealing

only his fantasies. Ladies, mark you,

without the challenge of conquest or taboo

the lure of novelty will tempt him to cheating.

it's not your body but companionship that keeps him