rob walker
50% off!
There’s a 50% off sale at angus and robertsons on swanston
That’s price
not content
or intellect
NOT a general dumbing down..
and the girl on the ladder putting up red balloons pops one and laughs
and says sorry and the other girl says you are So NOT sorry you So DID
mean to pop it!
and even Philosophy for Idiots is half off and I’m tempted to find out
what idiots philosophise about when they choose to philosophise but
decide to spend the money on secondhand poetry around the corner
instead
Storks
Regent’s Park, London, April 2003
mums with prams.
civil servants
watch-watching
everyone moves
purposefully
somewhere else
slender gangly storks
fold up stilts in
gangly slender trees
nestbuilding
stalk-collecting
watching a
man watching
nestbuilding,
stork-collecting
locals ignore
the or
dinary
only migrating
species show
reciprocal passing interest
Your sixth sense
walks into the room
along with the eyes of every man
and most of the women
As you brush nonexistent fluff and
fictitious grass clippings
from your arse
firmly grasped
by your jeans
Worthy of any theatre workshop
demonstration of
focal
point
Russian folk
for Lillya at 5
I.
in her first week at school she sings to me
a song in Russian
of foxes, flowers and snow.
A free spirit. I want to nurture this flower,
Hope
it won’t be crushed
by the snow of blah
Eaten by a fox
called conformity
II.
Later I ask her mother for a translation of the beautiful Russian folk
song.
zat I cannot be do-ink says her curt melody
zat song she is ma-kink up
as she is go-ink…
mandarines and daffodils
neon
july
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memos
of summer suns
sunsets
noons
