where’s my donkey : thursday evening
catch the train,
seagulls circling
Central Stationcatch a bus
pick up a paint chart,at the gallery –
Korea and Kinglake
photography exhibitions(different)
a very thin man
in Oxford Street
in red leather pantstalk on Eastside Radio
read two poemsat the bus stop
long haired boys –
regenerate fashion,
retro,
fashions
arrive & go by
really quickly –
I had to live through
the entire decades!(peeved)
catch a bus,
redhead woman driver
playing jazz piano cd
loudly, in the bus
(suits the traffic)catch the train,
seagulls gone to Pyrmont,
night workers
eating chocolates & chips(hunger)
walk to the seafood shop
buy the dory, grilledwalk home
*
I am the donkey : saturday afternoon
step onto the crossing,
lift palm to car,
thanks driver.
quicken pace, cross smartly,
think
‘why do I do that
why do I want to live
am I depressed?’Scottish sentimentality –
car alarm with violin(answer)
*
I pass the donkey : tuesday morning
walk to the bus stop
(forgot my watch & silver ring)
open umbrella,
light rain showercatch the sad bus
through the streets
around
sad blocks of flatspaint swatches
(I must remember)what colour the door?
the brick fence, what colour?coffee at Zoo,
hair colour in the arcade
(regrowth)buy underwear,
blue, mauve,
& stripeybuy preserving jar
(lemons)buy
honey, celtic sea salt
& iodised sea saltcarrot & celery juice,
the juice maker
takes ages
to juice the vegetablesalmost miss the bus
quickly buy the newspaper,
here’s the buswinding back
past Centennial Parkthere’s the donkey,
no, it’s a horse(mistaken)
here are the streets
around
the sad flats
& here’s
the Cauliflower Hotellisten to Patti Smith ‘Twelve’
(Changing of the Guards!)
on an ipod
on the buson the move
but in the clouds(worldless)
thought stuck,
pinned downstupid under
a roaring sky*
there is no donkey : friday night
hazard lights
in the bus lanepolice
remove the number plate,
the driver
brays drunkenly
(caught)going home
to make a poem
(this one)
to give my problems
to you, reader(contagion)
everything fails
when all else fails,
when all else
skyrocketssome of what I think
is a piece of crap
some of what I know
is worsesome things I say
shouldn’t be saidmy heart,
meaning
my feelings towards you,
reader,
meaning
my straight ahead empathy,
though
is
in the right placenearly home,
the streets seem darkenter the house,
hug you,
my synthetic coat
squeaks
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