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Overdose
A man will die in Laos.
Today, and tomorrow.
Today and tomorrow
a man will change a tire.
Behind him a mountain
in its 50th century
of slash and burn.
A waterfall, rapids.
A boy drinks methanol
at a Blue Moon party
on an island
where the souls of the dead
are rarely encountered
but often…
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Poem
And what shall
you do with yourself
oh tiny poem
in the vastness of white space,
your privilege?
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The Day Danno Died (i. m. James MacArthur)
The day Danno from Hawaii Five O died
it was 84 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny.
Somebody, not me, had found some shoes
of a fifties vintage
in Uyeda's Shoe Store in Puck's Ally
where boxes are stacked every which way.
The day Danno died somone in Hawai'i
had probably entered Masako's Candy & Gifts
which is on the ocean side of Beretania,
between Piikoi…
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My Les A Murray parody
An absolutely ordinary elephant makes tracks
to the breeding grounds of India
stops off to raid the Frost Free, terrorise
a few local farmers. Now that
forests are a vague memory (even
to an elephant who can't forget)
he finds beer and Sang Som liquor
absolutely to his taste.
Maybe he could cry, but doesn't.
A decade past he blundered…
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The Owl
Was it you I thought
your breath
on my shoulder
so cold and clean?
A memory of you
riven to me
like a silver pin?
As if I’d been taken
for nourishment
and devoured?
You who always watches
to whom I’m blind.
Except now, here, in a moment
I never expected:
you holding me,
I holding you,
our future and our past
flying through the…
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You had heard how in the old village
of St Victor des Oules
all roads lead to the wells,
all spies know la source
a girl who stoops by the well
to wash her face.
On guard her unhinged dog
a chihuahua with a red bow collar.
She too has red shoes and a white lycra top.
She is holding sunflowers.
He has her.
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Not disappearing in a hurry
(for Mark and Linda, P76 ‘missing issue’ launch)
The artists used to live there
in the mansion were the fun had disappeared
like mangroves.
Though last I checked small shoots
had sprouted in the mud.
Lantana never seems to die.
Robert, his teeth went first
but his poems were superb.
Then he did too, go, though Hillsong
got him combing his hair
for the…
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Love Poem
frozen
sentimental
if not sensation
then thawing
must occur
in the mind’s frost
oh that you
will always be more
than this
imprint
of sheets on a bed
in a ciphered
imperfect poem
an impossible
absence
my other
that called yesterday
all that
that is
and is not…
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Love Poem
frozen
sentimental
if not sensation
then thawing
must occur
in the mind’s frost
oh that you
will always be more
than this
imprint
of sheets on a bed
in a ciphered
imperfect poem
an impossible
absence
my other
that called yesterday
all that
that is
and is not…
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