1. |
raffa
03:29
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2. |
quantum theory
02:24
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The beers were iced, peanuts too salty,
air-post-ontological, smoke-free,
hot club and cool be-bop replaced by
electrobeat or acid house,
home town rhythms jammed
six o'clock rock...
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3. |
man with a broken tooth
06:07
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There had been a fight, or maybe,
as claimed in the sporting pages,
a series of pugilistic incidents...
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4. |
dirt track
04:38
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No albatrosses.
No whales.
No arguments.
No words...
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5. |
middle of the road
01:24
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This is nothing like
magnolias floating in a bowl of mercury
schools of flying-fish beneath
a glittering Tommy Ruff sky ...
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6. |
local knowledge
04:05
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About now, I reckon,
we should have an hour or so
to continue our path along the land's edge,
to drag our feet through halogenic skeins of weed ...
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7. |
travel plans
03:20
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|
"Stay in your lane," she muttered.
The smell of crushed metal
followed us like tyre tracks...
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8. |
||||
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There's not much you can do
with a hook through your jaw...
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9. |
night hike
06:00
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... and so we
wrapped the sky around our shoulders until
stars trickled down the middles of our backs;
deep within our bellies, we knew already
that this was not a night for making careless wishes ...
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10. |
the boy with two bodies
07:29
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Now that the pain has gone,
the bleeding has stopped,
now that this thing, these terrible things,
have been expelled from my body,
I can find the breath to weep and to pray;
I can find the breath for broken, fitful, sleep ...
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11. |
reviva
03:45
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12. |
mutton birds, anzac day
01:10
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You have only two instructions...
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Ian Gibbins Adelaide, Australia
Ian Gibbins is a poet, electronic musician and video artist, having retired in 2014 as a neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University. His poetry has been widely published in print and on-line. He regularly performs his poetry with his music and videos. For more info see www.iangibbins.com.au ... more
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