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Pam Brown Reads in Devonport
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This whole thing

 

bitten by the faux midge
         a raised round pinkish welt
     an imaginary link
to scratching
         the world beyond the capillary,
     a curdled blood shake
interrupting
                 this whole thing,

then
                      a rainbow in the dark,
     solitude wrecked
                          by connectivity's
           insistent cursor
plus
     the pestering faux midge
                 whirring
                        from the very bottom
of entomology's top down
                                 trophic cascade

                    ~

looking at it
                who will  ever
            get
                  the rebuses
(rebii?)                        or

the way
          Donna Haraway
                               invents
canny declarative statements

'Grammar is politics by other means'
                      is one of hers

maximise your lifetime opportunity
                              get over citation

(who said that?)

                    ~

(these
             ill-fitting
American paper sizes
                     just won't
                                      do)

                    ~

the art
            will be shipped
                           separately

                 is it sexualizable?

                    ~

maximise your contribution to society
                      dot connection

                    ~

someone should have offered
                                     a suitable quote -

      well kids, you tried
      and you failed,
      the moral is
      'never try'
                             (The Simpsons)

      money's short
      times are hard
      here's your fucking
      academy award
                              (Hallmark copy writer)

                    ~

if you support us we will give you something new
                                          fresh testosterone

                    ~

homozonic
                   ('homo' as in 'same')
never going elsewhere,        staying put
              in this faux midge swamp
   of perturbation,
                           marooned
      like a beef bird
                               too grainy to fly

                    ~

this is your chance to maximise your potential
                                           give something back

put the potato chips
                            into the plastic bowl

                  they're transitory too

rethinking
            (you can't advance and escape
                                                  at the same time)
stop that now -
                     take two of these before aperitifs

here in the midge world,               you're caught

                   no one's actually listening

 

 


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Last updated 28 January, 2016