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This is a test/ the decade
Damp, gas, dusty smell of old blankets -
How do you explain or question?
Listening to the rain
on the lotus leaves
on the minibus window.
It's a long way from home.
Remember: There were long queues to get in
drag queens doing air guitar.
You couldn't hear it but it worked the groove.
We were going to enjoy ourselves
but I found myself with nowhere to go.
People were seen to be dancing in the middle
looking for someone like a jigsaw.
'Can I have a picture taken with you?
I believe very much in your cause.'
Enough is enough and when is enough?
So, if I decide to walk home that night.
under half moon, ghost of sun
foxing the glass? Bus revs and
yeeros turns, bread lies flat, a fridge
of containers fascinating water and colour,
fistful of tabouli, lick of grease
turn the corner, grab the gate.
And old Miles hung a note on the night
on the moon jagged with clouds
strained against the sex of morning
a good groove, a soul groove, open window.
Am I still sleeping there through the time that smiles
and smells like fury, and who ever told you
it could happen like this?
Remember: a month of rain and the waves of wind
sailing with no-sleep, worried as if
a Royal Commission was 'comin' ta git cha'
always known as witness XO -
rather be a fine old brandy
that smooths out the night. O tell yourself.
Settle into your own little Milky Way
blank out for that eternity before you nova
hanging that little bit of universe.
Or bang like a train, its old sidings rusty
tracks early morning goods
and revs up the timetable
cranks up the birds.
Remember: swooping into day stream
walk around with a tattoo on your face
stretch bend and pray
every so often there are the fanfares
a lot of talk about heroes and flames.
The sky above has now got its right haze
the city's brood of towers
their own fluorescent flames of purple and red
in the short distance to the harbour.
No-one is coming to get you.
Walls and screens broadcast the truth.
A president's love amulet is the measure of all things
'the waves of meaning', on your knees
under the gun. How do we scream now that
I want to rock and roll everyday?
Meanwhile: the guide does not speak English
there is soft icy rain on The Administrator's Garden.
Don't slip on the bridge
don't get water on the lens.
This is a new pen.
Write 'this is a test'.
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