Kerri Shying R - # 185 - Desultory Day

Desultory day

touched upside the tendrils

 I am drawn inside the shell 

 this day  war takes my unsubstantiated

 body  all apart    into  quotes   spare parts  grades of

meat  assembled dis-mantled  here   I get the phone

 say yes    with gratitude    the offer of the shopping   Angela

put her hand up   when the call for the volunteers went out

 my social support day     fell today  

talk talk    talk the woman’s ear off  

her hubby out at Gilgandra   on a property  getting

didgeridoo  from the place   if no trees good   he will go up

round Brewarinna   we get my   door gates  stop my dog

from peeing in my workrooms   yarn it out    there are few

answers    how to take yourself  apart    all the while we put

it all together  make it   get it done

at the door  we smell the bbq  and it is good    on the road

we see the worst shirts  laugh and wonder

if anyone is happy for the ancestors

 those prisoners

  in dank chained bilges 

 forced to leave

  their homes