Pendaratan yang Salah
Membeli barang-barang yang dia inginkan
perhiasan hati di angin –
Minum krim brendi, bernyanyi bersama
sesuai irama tusukan-tok jam.
Tempatkan hasil uang kemenangan di bawah tumpukan kotoran sapi
Menebar lavender ke dalam setiap baris
Memasang kawat peledak bom di antara dawai-dawai biola
yang berhadapan denganku dalam kegelapan.
Nada yang sama jatuh
menjadi aksen irama musik yang sama
Aku adalah sebuah aksen –
Pantat yang ingin kau tepuk
Sepak ke samping
Koboi berpistol palsu
Madame Bovary, ya itulah aku
Namun ini bukan sebuah pengakuan
Tentang Paris, atau apa pun.
Sila mendesah, sesuka hati.
Kita akan selalu memiliki teknologi.
Perkenalkan perasaan apa saja –
Rasa spermento, spearmint, serpent atau sea spray semprot laut?
Aku akan meminta rejeki nomplok lain –
Sebuah rumah besar yang nyaman di antara pohon-pohon, tetapi
Kau akan memberiku sesuatu yang lain:
Sebuah moncong lentera yang tidak melepaskan satu pun cahaya nyasar.
Perlu berhari-hari untuk sebuah ketiadaan
Untuk mulai mengartikan sesuatu yang lain.
False Landing
Buy the things she wants
A bauble heart in the wind––
Drink cream-brandy, sing along
To the pin-pricks of the clocks.
Place the jackpot under a cow patty
Sow lavender into each row
Thread trip wires into the violins
I move in the dark against.
Same notes falling
into the same accent
I’m an accent––
An arse you want to pat
Kick it aside
Pop gun cowboy
Madame Bovary, yes it’s me
However this is not a confession
About Paris, or anything else.
Sigh all you like
We’ll always have technology viz.
Any promotional feeling––
Spermento or spearmint or serpent or sea spray?
I’ll ask for another windfall––
A warm mansion amongst the trees, but
You’ll give me something else:
A lantern jaw which sheds not a single
stray of light.
It takes days for the absence
To start to mean something else.
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