again, I'd call this a short film rather than a snap, Andrew, with
quite the soundtrack too!
Doug
On 22-Jun-05, at 10:02 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Warning Signs
>
>
> gourmet snails
> eat the chilli plant
> the flowering bush
> is a handful of sticks
> someone has put their butts
> in the geranium's pot
>
> today I bought
> Jill's the book of
> Possibilities
> for 50 cents
> of more delight than
> John's Peripheral Light
> (Harold left out the best of .)
>
> I sneeze and wheeze
> through coffee
> with my exwife
> and go through
> market shops with her
> like back when .
> only now its
> her money -
>
> at night between sets
> at Wimbleton
> I read Winton and Genette-
> forty / fifteen.
> Tim comes up to the net
> Gerard stays back of court ...
>
> Talking Heads are
> live in concert
> on the stained speakers
> 'warning sign of things to come -
> turn me over, turn me over'
> I go to bed
> and dream of fucking
> my ex-wife in red knickers
> 'warning sign, warning sign -
> look at my hair -
> like the design?'
>
> the kite of all my days
> flies a tattered tail .
> I'm holding on
> holding on
> snails at the chilli
> Talking Heads silent
>
>
> Andrew Burke
> Mt Lawley
> 23 June 2005
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
-- bring lust into the library
or it is hell.
Lisa Robertson
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