1.
I’d like to go out for lunch in Manhattan
and get a liver sausage sandwich.
and get a liver sausage sandwich.
2.
The roof of the gallery rattles when extreme wind blows.
The roof of the gallery rattles when extreme wind blows.
3.
I’m avoiding today the demand to do things quickly,
to get to the end.
4.
To live inside your mind you must be tough,
like Kerouac.
5.
The chocolate liquorice log didn’t help; will have to follow it
with a deep fried lasagne topper.
6.
We don’t like being alone,
even when we ask for it.
7.
Who made the decision to build another pyramid
when the harvest is failing?
8.
You can’t smell something that’s dead
until it’s dead.
9.
I just want to move, after six generations in this tribe that’s grown too big
and a drought coming on.
10.
Someone has graffitied on the wall: “Tania was here, tee hee.”
I’m not offended. The centuries have made me very tired.
11.
Lunchtime at the basilica, a lot of people worried about higher taxes,
slave revolts, and the devalued currency.
12.
I’ve lost faith in the new empire of Byzantium.
I’ve lost faith in the new empire of Byzantium.
13.
I wish I didn’t have to sit here amongst the gunpowder.
I wish I didn’t have to sit here amongst the gunpowder.
14.
You don’t see EXIT signs, until you have to EXIT and can’t get back
to where you entered.
15.
She said it was a picture of a rainbow stretched to black.
She said it was a picture of a rainbow stretched to black.
16.
Blue sky floods into the gallery
through high windows
I can’t keep my head level,
I have to look up.
