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States of Poetry - New South Wales | 'November now' by Pam Brown

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States of Poetry New South Wales - Series One

States of Poetry - New South Wales | 'November now' by Pam Brown

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States of Poetry New South Wales - Series One

on the first night
coo coo cooroo
falsetto blues singer

       blinded by the hurt
       coz I'm
       blinded by the hurt

troubled refrain 
slowly building
backing singers

       it's intersubjective
       I
       join them
coo coo cooroo

blinded by the hurt
repeat

             *

anti day
everyday
     partly cloudy
     in Wiley Park

Jan
   'taught the Beats'
     to a secular mix
     at Wiley Park
     Girls High School

after her job
on Tribune,
     communist newspaper

here am I
     in
     the train

'this train
will stop
at
Wiley Park'

Jan
       & her whiskeys
       & crime novels

               *

the way
             cloud
             banks

                   *

this sign -
       do not visit
       after heavy rain
       risk of tree failure          

glue gum
     eucalypt haze
     blue gumski
karrabin
bundjalung
red gum

                 *

I can't
help you

               *

third floor -
     is every woman
       on the third floor
       here
       for a mammogram?

               *

there
     a little poem
     tucked
     at the end
of the lifestyle supplement

just a bit bigger
     than
     a horoscope chunk

to give it its due

               *

I can't
help you

               *

     going going
koala
powerful owl
gang gang

coo coo cooroo

               *

documentary –
       the teabag tag
       jiggler dangling
       from
Noam Chomsky's
cup

       endearing

               *

troubled refrain

     real life
     tastes plastic
     anyway

repeat

 

Pam Brown

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