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Pam Brown



October already
on the last night
of september
server shudder
sends out
too many emails

it's always 11.52

when
I'm
prevaricating

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flat screen hd tv
in a
red wheelbarrow
hard rubbish
going home

*

the nazi train
full of gold
in a railway tunnel
in Poland
we don't know where

*

fog delays
seeing double

cirriform recedes
in a chemtrail wake
over Punchbowl

spraycan
can spray

everyone's a welder

*

the food
section

how to eat
an
ortolan

cover your head
with a cloth
shield your shame

but know
your Bottega Veneta napkin
deserves no stain

shoot
the nutribullet

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the other
food
section

Trastevere
from them there is
the top of the street
food of quality
now a legend
where lick
a moustache


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the train
full of gold
is in
Wałbrzych
we don't know
if it is
booby trapped

*
you're the salt
in my stew


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an ash threat
volcano blows
in the east

in the summer
of my 67th year
I join
the carbon cycle
go wading
in radioactive plume

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microbes
determine
every difference

including
intelligence?
or
the appearance
of intelligence

could somebody
sign me on
for some
of the artificial stuff

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a Futurama concept -
'super speed'
win $200
&
in one day
spend it
on
50 cups
of $4
coffee
drink them
to achieve
super speed

it'll be great

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sold to a wrecker
for a speck
carless in car city

sideways ear rocks
a vacuum
of phantasm

too-too icelandic music
bluetooth car kit a fad
devotional drumming
frosted electronica

though predominant
in the end
that Gotye song
was too simple

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saving for a spoiler
& sheer line
panel design
shelf-stacking
cool rooms
to make the money

to make
ends meet

sick of night
freezing
in frayed gloves

*

you're the lace
in my shoe

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ban cigarettes
& the entire jail
riots

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glance
at the green digital numbers
on the little oblong panel
on the plastic clock radio
in the bookshelf
11.52 again
has the clock stopped?

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write
a line for the trees
in Ashmore St

sunset racket
birdchirp
batshriek
big dark shade
farewell trees

*

don't you want
to laze around
on a warm
& airy paddock
put the top down
follow the curves

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all of it is lies

tears well
onside the eyes

sound's white noise
round the house

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a man
in orange dayglo
& a comical plastic helmet
bangs each lightpole
with a hammer

bam bam bam bam

sounds more like

thwok thwok

notes its number
on a clipboard

looking for whiteants
old technology
hammer pen clipboard

ausgrid logo

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Pam Brown's most recent of many books is Missing up (Vagabond Press, 2015). Alibis, a selection of her poems translated into French by Jane Zemiro, was published by Société Jamais-Jamais in 2014. Pam lives in Sydney.
blog: http://thedeletions.blogspot.com.au/
site: http://pambrownbooks.blogspot.com.au/
 
 
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