Sandy is just a name. Would you like another? How about Skye? Mandy? Linda?
Andrew
On 6 April 2011 22:54, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sandy?
>
> Carshalton Beeches
>
> L
>
> On Wed, April 6, 2011 15:48, Patrick McManus wrote:
> > Sandy with the metal in her nose,
> > tongue and ears. Where is she today? Yes where is she today??
> > P
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of andrew burke
> > Sent: 06 April 2011 14:00
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: snap: Have a Nice Day
> >
> >
> > Driving to the shopping centre,
> > Bukovski rambling in my ear,
> > I’m glad to be sober
> > and anonymous. When I was young, all hormones and energy, my poetic was
> all
> > about rebellion and getting a fuck. Today I step out of the car, head
> > full of Buk, and grab a trolley, swearing at its bent wheels. That’ll
> help,
> > my sober brain puts in, sarcastic as ever. The old desire to be listened
> > to comes back and I’m impatient at each counter, waiting for this,
> waiting
> > for that. They’ve got machines now,
> > not people. Just key in your late mother’s hat size and, voila, the
> money is
> > out of your account and into theirs, Messrs Coles and Woolies. Warmly
> > I remember the décolletage of
> > Sandy with the metal in her nose,
> > tongue and ears. Where is she today? At the scrap metal yard?
> > This machine doesn’t rock my world.
> > It doesn’t have Sandy’s knowing smile,
> > asking sweetly through banded teeth, Any fly bys? It’s a drive-by, fly
> by,
> > bye-bye whirled. Who’ll enjoy the fly bys on your funeral plan? Buk’s
> > buggered my mood, but he’s gone and I’m still here, shopping, so who’s to
> > complain. The machine says, Have a nice day with an American twang and I
> > kick the trolley straight again.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > I admit to cheating. I've been dredging through poetry drafts to find a
> > few to work up, and this one caught my fancy. Any criticisms welcome as
> > always.
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> > http://www.picaropress.com/
> > http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
> > http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
> >
> >
>
>
> -----
> collaborative visual work:-
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
http://www.picaropress.com/
http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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