1.	the writer arrives from melbourne

            the city changes, banned
2.	a public gallery, 3pm, he farts 3 times

            within the hearing of a copying student, female
3.	he goes to a session & he hears this woman say

            “my mood picked up when sales did”
4.	he quits immediately after & wonders

            can't she stop saying “sort of” every 2 adjectives?
5.	he randomly switches on the holy bible, red

            77.1 says: “I cried out to God with my voice”
6.	he shits a 2nd time, after the lit. session

            & 3 pieces of crumbed fish & chips
7.	he remembers last night this man telling him

            when someone eats meat he opens all the windows, wide
8.	he rings his wife & her voice rings:

            “I thought your plane has crashed”
9.	he gets an email on his mobile

            a susan wood says: call me on 0428 200 188 this minute
10.	he says fuck & fuck he says again

            remembering this familiar face that totally ignores his greeting
11.	a great opportunity of e-w communion is lost when the white man comes to sit

            next to him, no words, each smoking his own root
12.	as it is always lost when the writer is once again

            paired with others of color
13.	chips help generate gases in his bowels

            as traffic generates movement in this slow city
14.	to get published in australia sometimes means

            you have to wait till someone dies even though that someone may be yourself
15.	so i bring him with me everywhere we go

            & about a very good friend of mine he says: he is a snake
16.	& he imagines that to be true

            & is going to tuck it in, like his bed-sheet
17.	at 47, he feels he'd gone so high

            that he needs to go lower than hell
18.	when you don't have a heavy history, you end up with a heavy body,

            he thinks as he sips bad English tea at salamanca place
19. sitting perfectly in the sun day after noon

            the man, white, looks out of a painting
20.	it breaks his heart to see

            so many stars fallen & darkened in a 2nd hand bookshop
21.	he tells the swedish woman: you can't change anything unless

            you do it by physically fighting
22.	that's the no-way, better than your 4th way

            like the fighting maoris, not the giving up aboriginals
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