On May 31, 2011, as headliner of Sydney’s VIVID LIVE, The Cure played
one of two ‘Reflections’ Shows – its first three LPs (Three Imaginary Boys,
Seventeen Seconds, Faith) in their entirety, as well as a fourteen track encore;
‘The Lovecats’ closed both performances – at the Opera House’s Concert Hall.
even sunstruck the ribs rise

from Bennelong Point like Arthur C.

Clarke’s black slab

I storm the frets, stopping

only to whirl when your aperture’s

cocked at my spine

this hair’s a tornado

of sand ridiculous, you needle,

a blond gothic

no licks of laughter

(Father, Son, Ghost shedding Prozac)

my Scorpio sting: fuck off, Madame Acronym

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the ticket snakes

on knotted

wood shoved between twin beds

once

we had no need

for such arpeggiated space

dulled, you insult

in my headphones: ‘Other

Voices’, ‘A Reflection’, ‘Grinding Halt’ 

Fender grey,

a sea gull pummels crossbows

on the pane

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three   four   five

raven finished

casts embark Dry Ice

I’m more cleft

than that acoustic-electric

presented by my Daddy

in stunting aisles minors gravedigger-

dance and mew

the lovecatsss … 

a crèche of stars

weeps plasma at the mutilated

placard of the Harbour