with rubber tyres

bring back Pac Man

& the old apple mac.

*

you loved in motels

on the mountains & summers

were burning

you work for a living

& some days the UV is 9.

*

whole gaps in the level

of your thinking appeared.

reportage could be slotted

in a subjectline &

the sentence was lost

& recorded as

Lost Sentence

*

your day in your hand

is a cellphone & poems

with 3 words a line

are a hit.

*

icecream is over

poetry swallows.

*

how to remember the names of songs ~

my egos have always

been cowboys

& eros

a datsun.

at least that’s what you thought

the song said

*

your memory of singing

was a severing of music –

a hokey karaoke dream

*

nights & o’clocks

& The Time of Your Life

are interswappable

& you can pre pay.

*

malls are called boxed-ins

*

getting directions in another language you hear

all hobby roads

lead to hobby city.

*

Nobody knew what the other hand was doing.

Talkback was a Bellbird.

*

how to remember the name of a toaster ~

I cannot see high things.

dualit I love you in lights

heaven is an element

*

Coffee & Cafe

were vacant names

for internet holes

*

Rural Living & Mow-Down

are the names of up cars.

*

& plants ~

well you can forget about that.

there were filet farms.

lakes were another

drop in the ocean –

Lake Detox & the Great Spoilt

*

how to remember the names of flowers ~

violets in the hedge

freesia

daphne

are not the names of cows

they are the scents of amnesia

*

& when you’ve finished reading this

my radio my adori

she slept me over

& I’m up for a new one.

*

Violet Durn.

weaner

imagine you are

the sum total

of all the music

you ever heard.

*

your veins say

you are the bats

& the front lawn

with the feelers

& the verlaines.

*

& somewhere inside

you are joy division

& the fall

*

you mighta been the smiths

you just never know.

*

& in case you’ve forgotten.

your age

turn the sound down.

Copyright

First published 2004
This ebook edition 2012

© Sonja Yelich, 2004

eISBN 978 1 86940 575 5

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