Setback
 

a tangle
of multicoloured cables
& octopus tentacles -
a huge wave
drowns the esplanade
beyond mangroves
mulga & wallum
where nothing
offers new information.

all that's left to do is
transcribe.

statistics
that make you feel sad.

the city's racket -
rebuilding alt-modes
for anyone
excluded from utopia
& its unlimited sky.

authority's style
needs to denormalise.
dry winds wail
through departmental crevices.

draft a requisition -
can't read my thoughts,
handwritten -
window glass
could be
working class,
injuries looks like inquiries
inquiries looks american
enquiries looks formal.

the trees are all copies
& archive boxes
now.

fractured semiotics
everything's promotional -
no one speaks to
The Public.