the melbourne eye

the musk of others like a duvet over the afternoon in the carriage / adjusting the wet bikini under a white polycotton blend of english patient severity / with the luck of a gull’s shit on my cap / across the aisle seated in those blue-diamonded markers of postmodernism / whipping past a wetland restored / a pylon / the maintenance men in nylon / doing what they do best (maintaining) / is that the melbourne eye? / is this the selfsame loving perception of the believer? / in what ways is the ideal of justice conducive to love? / the bird shit seeps scalpwards / the polycotton sucks the seawater from the black / the failure of the poem necessitates another