You think you have suffered

then a girl you know

her mother she says

had fifty years hard drinking

now

she hears phones ring

in loaves of bread

the woman in the next room

(a world champion wrestler)

is employed by the Russians

the cleaner's in ASIO

people

live

in her wardrobe

(“Just like in Narnia!”

her daughter laughs)

and when she goes out at night

to check on the place

all down the hallway

dead horses

are lying.