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
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