Roger - I hate to let this go unmentioned coz it has lots of energy and
imagery. I just can't get hold of its tone or attitude or point-of-view - I
seem out of the cultural mix it is involved in, although I do love and get
involved in these lines:
a nibs last stand
in the integrated catalogues of the night
fingers sticky with msg-laden gomph
weary with the weight of the world's biggest spring-roll
lays down to rest by the sound of the rippling rill
Mystified a little by 'rippling rill', as I was by 'tyskie' and some other
bits - mystery is not such a bad thing ...
Andrew
On 07/03/2008, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> the shredded beef was a little sticky
> the spring-roll as big as two fists wrapped in plaster
> the tyskie sweet, a little strong
> lace-curtain shiver to the slight breeze
> unregarded, a thankyou note from an institution serves to remind
> the ides are just around the corner
> plaguing the offie and the snug
> bending brushes over the lip of pond-green jam-jars
> making extravagant pens bustle and burst
> in the convenience store and the rotten-tooth graveyard
> yard-sticks are for measuring
> heinz ketchup is for chips
> plasticine people must rampage through the cupboard and onto the broad
> strokes
> the clock's last stand
> it's as if an army of two would play knock-down semantics
> in the field of the cloth of gold
> the silver nightmares of the limitless realms of fancy
> a nibs last stand
> in the integrated catalogues of the night
> fingers sticky with msg-laden gomph
> weary with the weight of the world's biggest spring-roll
> lays down to rest by the sound of the rippling rill
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> The Go-Betweens
>
--
Andrew
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