Sunday, August 7, 2016

Kerri Shying R # 42 The Stationery Bus ( from Anna Couani "habitats")


The Stationery Bus.
from Anna Couani “habitats”

The stationery bus
was conceived to be a better version
of the bendy bus
until the bends got load-bearing

sudden folds took unexpected
advantage of passengers
their belongings
the dignity

modeling was sound
based on ancient principles
origami hybridised with economy
but mayhem

when it ensued
took down more than tendons and tote bags
 the innocent fell
 to the stationary bus

destinations bleached to
nothing more than faint scribble
as the argument over conception
raged on

that bus
on paper so successful
a paper wasp
stung a government to the ground

3 comments:

  1. pretty cryptic
    although I am enjoying the stationery/stationary play ...
    I guess a bus could be a kind of filing cabinet
    and then it might be going nowhere
    the way bureaucracy often does/n't

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  2. That is it, and I think it needs more, but after a big family weekend, it just came out...

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  3. so I'm thinking that the stationary bus is a habitat?

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