Lines crossed leave dark lord skid marks +
orphans | signs of constancy we grew up under
alert travel tutors . See? rope ankle^hanging subjects
from a bridge, homework like.
What eats shore vultures clutch ! sea changers
paid to serve stakes high in asphalt waves | hard
to sustain . our island wide mouth breathing on
which crude rise makers + millions depend.
^
Moth fitful . N’Indira half year past her last
trimester, latch^feed account still active, googles
How to wash^wipe leave . this All he care about
cow milching; brain methane squirts.
Lovers roast taste . fire place in a state
G’wan so ! cyan just dice off every stick^cheating
carrot | pray the capuchin^like stray pokes end
bamsi reset in a pinch.
^
Couching balls men chat about the game, never
fine with loss | dandelions used to child’s play
field invasion go Take, take whatever you want
Please don’t
Pimps van^shipping flesh crop + savings
live – for skin care job car child piano lessons –
stream like ‘others chancing ocean swallow
panting for whatever the ‘uck those pots host.
– W.W.
YUH RAP SO (3.6)
Unlikely reader, does it seem unlikely,
Not to say unethical, that Conrad had
Managed to start an Affair with Amanda,
A tough Prairie Gal thirteen Years his Senior
Who must have known that his caring Demeanor
Was just his bluffing Way of trying to get
Her to speed up the Bureaucracy-Process
That would lead to his Emigration Papers?
But, having no influence whatsoever
On the Outcome of his Application,
She simply indulged his masked Supplications:
Naturally those had boosted her Ego but
Don’t get her wrong (her whole Life was locked to not
Getting – not being seen as getting – Things wrong:
Her blood wasn’t also German for nothing!)
(from “Raponani” by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 