new zealand electronic poetry centre

 

Len Lye


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LINGER LONGER LAURA


Linger longer Laura, it’s not Later yet, we’ve done better work before we do it, we’ll be 
there. Meanwhile only forever scraping off contact with sticky mess outside until no more 
forever. Not to deny that when it’s Later it’s everyone knowing better work for comfort 
outside and inside it’s Mr. Levine be yourself and on the shelves pin-point statements of 
mental well-being if you want to remember – if not, for me a plough or cleaning the streets 
or say what, but without losing touch with everything’s just the same. The marvel just 
now is to know now and yet feel good. I don’t want to go home, I was dragged up 
among the tombstones and had and early deceit until I learned that the most the 
monuments stand for is to be found at the foot of any lamp-post and if it’s spit then there’s 
the gutter.

 

© Len Lye


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Last updated 22 August, 2001