clint eastwood - Poot!

i dialogue with jim

over a back fence the colour of pantene & aquatica.

he tells me how to cover grapes

so the blackbirds won’t swell on them.

i tell him about my ella who is drawing

a graveyard of shipwrecks in pencil.

he tells me about stencilling in wanganui

& how you can wipe out a whole town

with a can of spray.          like this pffffffft.

he says in the latest listener april 5 page 55

which are great numbers don’t you think ~

there is a fine example of

a clint eastwood honking forward

with a gun going Poot!

he says Poot! would make a great shot.

get this. if you are looking for the article it’s by

neil young.

for real.

happy birthday shark!

arriving in the scribbly raindrops

we have a parcel from melbourne

of one revolving dolphin lamp.

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we are warned in serif

of the dangers our lamp can bring.

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the shocks we may get

if the power is on

& a hum is heard on the left side.

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the lamp is round

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there are also times we may need

to ignore the sound of the

happy birthday shark!

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we are pleased we have options

on this day who rains & pours.

Nurnberg

from germany

the postcard

of castles arrives.

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in the last days

it was 36 degrees

you miss the celsius.

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we do a lot

of swimming in the

fountains.

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we are cooked

of august

& the smallest

she is sick.

New York

We are home

to wellington

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our cases of

life have not

arrived

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we are without

christmas

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& all about us

people karori

& hutt & petone

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if only

spanishing

we supermercado

for avocado ~

no joke.

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instead we end

up with money

chocolate from france

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& how we sing

the ode to aioli ~

our new discovery

in Tallboy

i tell my grandmother

who knew about plane flying

we are heading for the ponsonby

offramp. she tells me we are heading for

zemon which sounds like lemon

& that the americans will drop blankets & propaganda soon

& cigarettes if you are lucky.

i tell her about tv & advertising

& that it is best not to look

she says surely we must be close to the zemon

airport by now & how she must give blood

for money & bread

i tell her about calm things

like dolphins in the lemonadey

sea below doing their dorsal stuff

& how to make a safe lane change

in an import

from her wet nappy she asks me

where is the west

from the car

& what are we doing on the bridge.

in a newspaper cut out

that she kept in Tallboy

along with Seiko Watch there is her

standing beside a plane wing & a big number

like 01 say

with mask & earflaps.

boots also.

teeth – 2002

i am barefoot in the small room       with yellow windows

from the sun        through the glass is a hedge which is really

like a wall

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my grandmother is resting her thorax & the skin on her hands.