after Bernadette Mayer
“Let’s just helicopter the ocean
somewhere”
– Anne BoyerNew South Wales is awful
The winter’s non-existent
The sun will come out today
There are Yuppies
Men & women who can’t walk
They wear dark colours & jog around, admiring browns & greens
looking down at their phones & pretending to predict all the
big stocks
Or else they nod winely
Yup, a Moscadello
The high turns mellow all the time
The liver’s grey
Every movie’s black and white
Everybody eats greens
Nothing freezes
Everyone owns a cute paper mouse
People watch wood chopping every Easter
They dine around on spicy foods
All the trees look dehydrated
They are killed so meadows grow
There’s always daylight
People sit home & drink, boiling
At night all grab telephones, go out & the powerful down blow
Every weekend there’s scorn, so no one want to see you
The fireplaces burn on the outskirts
The mountains look black afterwards
There are only cookbooks at the store
Gourmet’s a big thing
Everybody has a hairstyle
Sex is druggy for people in New South Wales
It’s 36C & they use rubber for non-slip mats
Some people have to have regeneration surgery
The wrinkles are very small
You have to go out with a cold
All of a sudden the blue gum is blown away
Everything’s buried under five feet of sun
It doesn’t go away until April or May
Every drink’s either Snapple or some kind of lemon squash
The houses are all hot boxes & you cant open the windows
People sell storeys to each other
People have to cum & and pull the sweat off their side of
the bed
Then people build garages for their different cars
They have town meetings about the river system
The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the
Murray in drought
Even the water flees this trap
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
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56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones