vaping
                                                                                                         while driving

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before they opened the floodgates, expecting more rain, townsville’s dam was at 229% capacity—
                       a crocodile spotted in a flooded suburban street
                                  “why can’t we just pipeline that water straight down to the murray-darling?”

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In Absentia
Absent DJ
DJ in Absentia

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                                      it was a tactile, hazy day in so-called sydney:
                                                  the street closing in on itself, creating a loop

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saw an article in the new yorker about juuling—
                                   in high school bathrooms, kids vape a pack-a-day worth of nicotine 
        one tells the journo, “dude, we all gonna die anyway”

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bamboo toothbrush
bar soap
bar shampoo
paper packaging, glass jars & whole foods
carry keep cup, water bottle, fork

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                                     “‘professional activists’ blamed for high schoolers striking for climate change
                                      in ‘disgusting political manoeuvre’”

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tuesday morning I hear someone rummage in our bins for bottles for the 10c refund
                                                                                                I go back to sleep

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                         I describe my bed as “palatial”
                                                            you read from the dictionary (so sexy): “spacious, splendid”

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                                                  a vegan kills cockroaches in her bathroom while her guests sleep— 
                                                              flushes their little bodies down the loo

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“before you came, all our packaging was biodegradable, our food organic & pesticide free”

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              it is now may. come what may (?)
                                                  a few blasted mozzies still out—never seen this late in the year