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"This after all is the 21st century."

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falling feels like flying here

the neighbours are having a cuppa

with their vertigo,

here comes a guy diving

the wrong way

it’s an appendix, purple

mountains in the same distance

where vermiform stands for useless

those brainwashed baton wielders

no stupider

than the rest of us

wave it around, if you think it will do

any good,

make you feel better, anyway

no parachute

be happy

a hamburger would be good

maybe we can keep on falling

hang in there

the next collapse isn’t due for

a couple minutes

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Precession in Earth's Axis Causes Astrological Woes.

Witches Will Be Required to Have Permits.

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Driving in Late

Swerve into Shell to get a top-up
for the day. Can't pay outside
since credit pulled the plug.
So pay it in.
Sodium vapour's sickly now
the moon's come down the hill to party,
nice and slow.
Up at the all-nite market, circle
round in eights across
the empty yellow grids. No choice,
where every choice is yours.
A dark-haired girl at check-out,
someone stacking back in Dairy.
Can't stay here,
an automatic door, four apples in a bag.
About a pillow height,
the concrete wedges in the lot.
So lay it down.
Why not? A man's a pile of
burlap bags on blacktop,
shadow, disconnected moon.

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politician says: I Don't Recall

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God rests

Angels have been requested

To reduce the volume

Trumpets etc and the soaring

Voices of the host

Having created much

Heat below

But insufficient light.

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Reality Was Far From Appearance

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Phoenix Hockey Reborn

Safe from harm now, these padless

pantless players: tough

penalties awarded against dangerous

behaviour, high sticking for example

two minutes together

in the penalty box, boarding,

five minutes for indecency,

charging, a major, unless it is by mutual

consent, the Don Cherry offense

only allowed once in each new game.

He skids, he shoots, he scores!

And woo-woo,

for icing the puck.

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Recruiters Break from Tradition

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Standing Room Only

Tossing hair arms

Twist stay conceive

Torsos hips voiceless

Thighs colours there

are no colours

really

A, arabic symbol

where we stand

This crowd

splayed impossible

To kneel go back someone

Deliver. All figure

no ground

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Threat to World Order

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At a Loss for Words

He came to the city,

Esu Ketema me – t' -a.

My father’s fricative edges, simple cubes

and cones coarse and emphatic in the mouth.

But we became strangers, cooling

like stars in their diaspora.

I translated these words:

All human-beings

to dignity and rights' matter in

from birth freedom and equality

acquired is. Them to reason

and conscience's

endowment

acquired is and always them

to brotherhood's spirit... .

But what does this mean

to strangers who speak from vulgar Latin,

who bow to Slavonic borrowing, freeze

in Orthodox corners?

Words twist

in the mountains— Alouette,

hidden for ages with potatoes and onions,

they change with a curl of the lip,

a softness of palate. I remember the woman,

face to face on the train, our fingers touched

across the table. Koncha madhu patrakke haki

(having poured a little wine into the cup

separately.) I came fast forward,

she rode backwards just as quickly, finishing

her drink, falling through words.

By the book of The Red House,

I’m carried in travel,

forwards and backwards, my father,

my lovers,

my children,

transforming the stone on my tongue.

Ref. from Amharic, Hindi, Slavic and Romance languages, Kannada, the early Mandarin novel The Red House

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Between them they speak English, Hindi, Mandarin, Portuguese,

Russian, Spanish, French, Kannada, Amharic and Tamil

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Stations of the Day

Sometimes at night I think I hear an owl

Look what else he did. He did tons of stuff

The preying mantis attacks a hummingbird

On wiener day you can use a capital

If you're talking about Vienna

It's calm now. We should look for the knife

They're the bats of noon

They'll defend their hole with their lives

Centuries of June. What does that even mean? Who cares

My head's full of stuff I can't do

Dorothy leaves of her own accord

Light narrows down the long hall of day

Thank God you've still got that, eh?

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Chief Vows to Empower Developing Nations

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Even when laws have been written down,

they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle 384 – 322 B.C.

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A New Worldview

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in the bay, limestones,

hardened remains of our lives

waver in moonlight

we learned our hunger

clustered in flickering rooms,

pursuing happiness

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As Play Violence Turns Real, An Attempt to Ban Toy Guns

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Raku

Our aesbostos hearts

do not blacken or crumple.

Suppressed, they consume the life

that breathes around them,

decorate with its remains.

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A Mood of Triumph and Sober Reflection

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Spermatozoon and Free Will

A young woman in a blue dress jack-knifes

from a car, slams the door. Her heels clack clack

on slate, to an entrance

which is lit by a bulb within a cast-iron cage.

That door opens and shuts. The porch light goes out.

The car pulls away, neighbouring

frontal, parietal,

and reproductive systems spying.

Painted faces surround the boards, voices hoarse

in pursuit of their desires. A gale force wind of team

colours. The red light flashes behind a net. A horn

ends the season. The losing crowd breaks win-

dows. Loots stores. Sets a police car on fire. They say in

court they don't understand their behaviour

–charges stayed against hippocampus

amygdala and other limbic lurkers

Professor Hobson lectures on choice and free will, apparently

unaware of the signs of a recent

Shiraz lunch on his blue shirt.

Students scribble feverishly. One asks if Heidigger

will be

on the exam. Hobson bows his head,

occipital, temporal, corpus callosum, urinary

and digestive elements in conflict.

Elsewhere, in a great sanctuary, stained glass sun illuminates

the preacher as he reiterates the miseries of Job,

a test of faith. Downstairs

in Sunday School,

a small child joins in verse, "if God so loves

the little birds, I know He loves me too,"

midbrain, pons, medulla,

frontal, parietal, lymphatic, respiratory,

circulatory, cerebellum, immune, endocrine, and

musculoskeletal actors fallen

into temporary harmony.

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A Power Struggle, the Threats Have Changed

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Prestidigitation

Hand gestures in the dark

Appearing in a flash of light

an audience, is mesmerized

draws in and holds

its breath at fire-wheels from out-of-sight

Hand gestures in the dark

sky limbs unfold

A day un-spools from black to white

The audience is mesmerized

Laurel offered, olives, gold

An unseen icon vested with great might

Hand gestures in the dark

a figure rises from a living mould

New visions set out new delights

The audience is mesmerized

Our stories, who knows why they’re told?

Mere fascinators falling through a thought of night

Hand gestures in the dark

The audience still mesmerized