Yeah that clingwrap!!!!
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Subject: snap - morning paper
Morning headlines: huffing and puffing
Shuffling, slipper-scuffing,
already I've woken both dogs
from their beds in the passage.
They're noising their need
for breakfast. We crowd through
the side door into the garage.
Out front I pick up the paper,
fumbling for the edge of the clingwrap,
sometimes a task beyond a half-awake
old codger. In the kitchen judging
how much water the kettle needs is taxing,
pouring milk in the sugar-basin likely,
and shifting the teabag to the bin
calls for rare co-ordination.
The headlines! some days you know
the real news is so bad - and so like
yesterday's - it's been buried on page four.
Something local and not too 'political'
may substitute for the seriously grim.
What's it today? I can't bear to tell you.
But on page four instead of Lebanon,
it's 'Gallery's Van Gogh may be fake',
and 'Poets fall out...from bard to verse'.
Poet One in his memoir details drug-taking
with poets Two and Three. Now they object!
'fabrication', threatened 'defamation action',
sending him up to forty emails a day.
Poet One responds with restraining order,
and won't read at the Byron Bay bookfest
for fear of assault.
Poet Two speaks of falsehood and betrayal,
and 'he has no sense of humour...of irony.
... just a publicity stunt.'
Poet Three; 'Restraining order?
... That's typical of him.
We were just having fun.'
Nothing about poems. Still,
I shall look for the memoir
next time I'm in a bookshop.
Just a quick browse to confirm
my sense of humour, irony
and superiority.
Do their names matter? That old idea -
poems should circulate without names on -
grows more attractive by the day.
Memoirs? no solution comes to mind.
After breakfast, the dogs will quarrel
unless taken to the park. I'll take them
one at a time. In the cool dawn air,
they can publish their vaporous exhalations.
Max Richards
Doncaster, Melbourne
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