.
gradually realize white noise
is not noise of her chewing
grey gelatinous teasel heads
in bomb damaged tea rooms
but is in fact radio-alarm clock
tuned to off-air station. red
LED numerals swim in total
darkness. six colon zero nine
six colon one zero. dream dissolves
becomes rheum blurring vision
erection steadily diminishing
six colon one one. one leg
out of bed. three, two, one
- roll over - and out
kneel by bedside as if praying
take pull from glass of water
to irrigate parched reptillian
tongue. she says "paloma picasso"
and smacks lips
as if savouring something delicious
tasted for first time
"same place on chart as vente
vert" she announces. arbitrary
decision or observation? slip
feet into curling flip-flops
and marvel at her amazing
world of the unconscious. wonder
if white noise also on chart
no clock digital or analogue
in bathroom. dark yellow
urine puts head on water in avocado
toilet bowl. psoriasis on face
worse according to mirror. ignore
unreliable bathroom scales with pointer
waiting at zero. shower tiles cold
underfoot. wash hair and clammy
maggot white flesh
six colon three two according to
blue LEDs of microwave oven
make tea and take tea
into silent living room. electric
milk float hums past outside
switch on tv. zap through
terrestrial and satellite channels
six colon four nine according to
white LEDs of VCR. kill tv
stand in dark room pondering
land of rising sun. envisage
stolid hungover salaryman
waking in mortuary drawer sized
hotel room with incomplete
recall of previous night and sudden
anxiety about how drunken
behaviour might affect adversely
worthy but dismal career
magpies chatter astonishingly
loud on rooftops opposite
like mad itinerant nuns
squabbling above precipice
six colon five nine
according to grey and black
LCD of wristwatch on desk
in study. double dot of colon winks
on and off, marking dying
seconds of hour of neither
night nor day
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