Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Kerri Shying R # 93 Spring Bird in the Antipodes


Spring bird in the Antipodes
 ( to Justine)

it sprang up on that antenna like that
damn clock used to
come out go in
the Bavarian House
once upon the hour

It was looking
at me laughing
a woman on the bus stop
and the more I looked the more
I thought

the bus was not the bus for me

today
as much as I said
I said
stupid woman being anxious being anxious
you never can just sit you
let the birds
talk
to you and yet
and yet

the bird turned side on for a better look
at gimptard sitting on her walker
on the way to no-one 
 never laughed
flew up to the highest TV
mast I’ve ever seen – oil rigs couldn’t take a lick
at this -three times the height
of the house

ready to topple
like an iceberg
made of wires
all redundant now 
but for the sitting
for the sitting
for the sitting of the mate

 lady friend was where
the bird was going -the kookaburra
and the world
changed

sun shone ground grew warm
the ants
just dancing Buby Berkeley musicals around my boot who
gives a shit about the bus
the bird forgives

it’s got romance on the brain not me
the prospect of a cab occurs
 or that
I missed a bus it
just
came early

take a hint from me
 the choice
of avian oracles is hit and miss
 at best

even discount being shit on

it takes a lot of factors
to make a thing come right I
called a cab

and waited cursing
at myself
saying
laughing
birdbrain birdbrain
bird brain.

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