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Janet Charman


it's an addiction the Bloomsberries had
six posts
a day

someone emails
to say they won't pay
will i come and read anyway?

i'll do it for a bottle of wine
so lame
to admit i'd do it for a sandwich

will that be enough?
no give me the cash
i'll do it for a packet of cashew nuts

the wound-up hands of my clock press
on the glass
and time stops

bend the arms back
to the face
blinkered it ticks

when the chimes
ceased
i had the mechanism overhauled

after he pocketed my two hundred and fifty
the technician confided
his simple remedy

double thump a kereru pair

plump on the power line
which
sags

in the hills
their numbers building
not

enough to shoot
through two closed doors
and down the hall

smell that
pigeon
baking in the kitchen

twice
i grab the cat by the neck
and squash her under the carry-box flaps

the first time
eyes slit
she squeezed a seam

the second
i got her closed in
the box became unaccountably light

she vanishes
a trick cat
desperate

witches
could be made
to tell how she got out

bugger the priests
i go down to the vet
for advice

they say
don't bring her in
sponge the pecked eyes with cold tea

it's an anti-inflammatory
she lets me
just

backed up
the arse of someone
in the Pak'n'Save carpark

hideous crash
and was it my fault?
well whose fault was it?

now i have to get
round the wreckers for the tail light
over and out

 


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