Tag: imagination
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What You Wanna Know?
Did senior infants twice Had head lice Had strikes, struck out thrice Got head twice one night different mouths Almost lost count but not of lies I told Could see us growing old together, sprouting mould together Two go-getters get wetting, wet getting, house shopping and make nesting Enduring all weathers When our hands are…
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Night Drive Neon Stained Skies
Key to things beyond my ken Obelisk tip is called Ben Ben It represents primordial land Song stage on which Atum stands. Drive what feels like ages Trees instead of walls still cages My life a thousand variations on beiges Need captain’s holiday on a Bejor lakeshore, no room on Risa Always expecting a downpour,…
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Green Cars Kill Ya
Green cars will get you, ask James Dean Skrrrrr before the term existed, kerb he bit it Like a smoke lit big light means soon ash Ten times whiplash his head hangs like heavy fruit dangling on thin twigs Nose pushed in like a pug or a pig His ride carved up the street, trenches…
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I Hate Town
Moons glowering at all of us Spire towering, abhorring us Jutting up like a vast syringe Totem black tar heroin binge Barney’s Laneway don’t go back there Rusty knife boys selling crack there Go another way to go into the Sackville for your nightly Satzenbrau Can’t use names because town is tiny but someone’s husband’s…