Zombie, brains wanted

By | 13 May 2024
brains dried out homogenised tongue

I could see it lying there the hollowed coconut

on a koh sumat1 beach

frozen

temporal

space.


I need the right replacement

for my fall-out brain

the scoop they took out was

a macaque’s monkey toy

stomped on

at a full moon party

by the research monkey

boys.


I want it reconstituted like that

rotting raggedy rag doll

restuffed with plant polystyrene pods

fermented woodchips discarded

synthesised improvements stapled in.


I’d like an organic brain

virginal with happiness

essential synapses firing but

not too developed in the frontal lobe

I want the removal of doubt

German precision

Japanese hardware.


Any type will do really

as long as there’s a reset button.


Deletion of all memories.


Make it functional again. 






    

  1.  Koh means ‘island’ in Thai. Summat is dialect (Northern English) for ‘something’. ↩
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‘Emily Sun’ lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wadjuk Noongar people (Perth, Western Australia). Her works have been published in various anthologies and journals including Meanjin, Cordite Poetry Review, APJ, Mascara, and Growing up Asian in Australia. Her debut poetry collection Vociferate 詠 (Fremantle Press) was listed as one of the Australian Book Review’s Books of the Year in 2021, was Highly Commended in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, and was shortlisted in the Western Australia Premier’s Book Award in 2022. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Western Australia, where she is working on a historical fiction project. Emily is the co-editor/publisher of Hello Keanu! A Poetry Anthology (2024).

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