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The Landing
The aliens arrived and they read our DNA just like a book. They had no interest in our words. They sampled the oceans and its diseases, a pathology specimen from the self-destructive damsel of this solar system, an off-smelling primordial soup that has sat on the counter for too long, infested with small creatures who […]
Domicile
And the furniture was in the room But his hands, too tired to move Icons cast pitiful judgement As their eyes follow you It’s what you choose A pre-nailed down being Half-naked, see the detail, that relief Comes flat packed, cast in brass And hungry, to your taste If only you could make him rise […]
Tarsier
I design the shade of dark To colour my prowl A garish street light chase Is no dignity of ending But acceptable when you’re still dry Dry Dry at night The ears to hear you better with The eyes to see you better with And my third finger It’s no surprise to find you here […]
Japanese silk
Chase the light at the right frequency Know it ain’t the sun, but fly A pin will show you To the man who knows some truths Orient his eyes, if your dust looks right You’ll bend light too And turn into his prize
Body admin
I hate I chase the taste Then it’s night already Managing borders, sovereignty Half intake, half time in waste Mostly water takes the space I wish I spent doing what transcends Instead of being stuck in body admin At least not taste for chaste But from bed, to bar, to fridge, to face We must […]
Feathers
Make a pillow of my ruffled feathers Til I’m cold and weathered Make a puzzle out of funhouse mirrors Til I recognise myself again I don’t want to shed the blood I don’t want more of this stuff I want to be the last animal And tar the branch at last Until we’re all too […]
Lenin was a mammal
Don’t go talking to robots Or eat mushrooms until you’re one Because the echo of everyone The informatic mitosis In a random amplified signal Is nothing but a borg psychosis
A love letter to the city
In a Sydney state of mind The roaches in the floorboards And the roaches in the streets Are scheming their lifestyle moves Crawling over well-appointed Painted-over switches and windows That won’t open to prove Nothin’ to the lords of our homes Now that I’m longer in the teeth Getting longer in the teats, bled dry […]
Cargo 200
A swansong of limbs on a grainy TV But the ghosts of idealism Wrestled their way in via private interests All fat cats now, but friends with the rats And the rest of us, in cargo 200 May we all watch swan lake once more See how their skirts bob
Flower boys
And after he was planted in the ground Just like a tulip bulb The war started and his value rose up To push the daisies out It takes printed usurps To make a dead man work so hard From beyond the grave like that
Too late
So she ate a poison apple From the burning tree It embarked a strange flavour But that ain’t the story for me Even if my hair caught fire And smoke ran through the streets A woman’s desire is sometimes Just to have something to eat I won’t miss you If it takes over a month […]
Pippi
Hey Pippi Longstockings I could hang my coat on that nose With those stories I won’t ask where those golden bars Of yours came from Or when the old monkey of yours Last showered
Blue note girl
So my blue note girl has met a man He’s promised her something She’s kissed him once, she’s dazed Says she feels a connection with him Man, I guess that’s convection for you. I’m not hurting, but need to untangle That knot in my throat when you tangled my tongue with yours Spend another night […]