07/23/2026
“…the enormous tragedy of a premature ripeness
that we find everywhere, a premature nakedness
that sells itself everywhere.”
– Wilson Harris, Companions of the Day
and Night (1975)
Inside her village drawer folders of tidiness
wait purpose . merchant fingers keen
to count the stash in her vivarium; midlife
lizard running down her leg fast.
Over there they toss things out of fashion,
not helpful things; cold cranks of desire out!
Tourist here cyan decide . what price sun
tan. Yuh want ? or yuh don’t want it, lady.
……………….
Biptie’s account . story of escape through
bite lip sighs . Now we can rewire indentures,
the suicide net | + kokers for time past No,
no Ol Hague styling sluice . gap tooth country.
About us what incomers like? roadside
sand pile, from cow to castle raising; snake
head wine set @Flute | even J. Crow
pre-paid might look the other way.
…………….
Archive this . Maroon band on a bus
to Kingston; heard the Govt building one
Bomba Ras root router | and? its director^
ship needs you.
Caller unknown ? who could resist new
world devices Gwan! back wood ‘n’ water
side . still fucking with our night to day
break dream . iBone 24/7 charging.
- W.W.
YUH RAP SO (7.6)
You see how eager clichés are to stagger
our every effort to enter the centre
of every desperately innocent need
to tell a truth that’s hurting – to start to mean
when you live in a dinosaur-flatfooted
zone of existence where meaning is the last
footprint anyone has the least interest in –
a shrug becomes part of every need to mean
(from Limboa , a sentimental anthem
by Brian Chan, 2023)
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