Weel, everything is happening there, Lawrence, for sure. (Why is the man 'looking smug' when everyone else _does_ their thing?)
Doug
On 2011-09-02, at 6:19 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> A woman, slumped in her dull car, peers out,
> disapproving, making notes with pursed lips;
> a man in a shabby coat, trading gossip,
> rubbing his crotch through baggy trousers,
> looking smug; a cat rolls on a carpet
> left on a garden path; a dog pisses
> on a grass verge, wetting the plastic bottle
> thrown there, glistening now; a blue four wheel drive
> fails to complete a three point turn; and stalls
> down in the sunken road dusty in leaves;
> a house alarm goes off and is ignored;
> you cunt, shouts a youth to his friend right there,
> beside him, grinning, compliant, dragging feet
> as the two torrent downhill noisily.
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> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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