what about drive-bys, muggers, alleys and gangstas

producing top shelf duty-free
    New York's not like that at all not crowded
sunlight inches across the kitchen floor
    just checked my email gotta job sitting here

    so bestiality's called Zoophillia now for God's sake
    saw them on cable when I couldn't sleep one night
    with their goats and cows trying to get acceptance in society

relay, two dozen beer, a stick of salami, two packets of sesame crackers,
three loaves of white toast bread, saving our cat from boy-racers, fruit-only
jam, tea with milk and sugar, twinkle toes and eyelashes, two Chinese
takeouts, three pizzas, his eyes still dark as hold, Playstation marathons...

early summer here south of somewhere
people turn up from blue you were singing
other town and overseas laughter

set them free and they return messing things around
so you know they love you leaving empty plates
new lies freshening up the humidity
every one of us travelled here on a story

© 2001 Trout &
Raewyn Alexander