Travel in My Country.
go monkey go I urged her on my
mighty ape the thirteen floors
of administration
find them I whispered
in her
large hair-fringed ear
take the letter from
the records of
the big English
speaking stasi
climb that middle
management
baby climb and bring me back
my normal
she gave me a huge
leather
thumbs up that we had been
practicing
in the shed for weeks
while she climbed and
the
Blackhawk
helicopters buzzed around her
tummy shooting I noodled
in the dirt playing tic tac toe
that’s naughts and crosses
in the old money
but in the real world
two policemen
in full riot clobber
and guns and handcuffs
came
and checked my train ticket
while I typed they said
what you writing
I smiled I hoped
they would move
on
Lawless. Perfect.
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