MEDICAL PROCEDURES It started out as an irregularity a flittering of the heart Somewhere on the left The ventricle started flipping like a flag in a manic breeze it woke me up at 6 a.m. as it had done several times this week and last and I decided it was time to do something about [...]

MAY 10 camera without a card and a phone with a dead battery I feel technologically naked…. P.O.V. unconsidered perspective form a Ronan Keating song the character is actually talking to himself rather than speaking to some ‘one’ – is this a unique point of view what is it- second person- the dialogue that goes [...]

May 9 Breakfast morning rains the facades of buildings reflect in sandy concrete that borders the tram tracks nothing clear just squiggles of colour you can identify as the residue of light from the subway across the road or leisure electrical discounts or the shop without a name just a ‘sale’ sign I watch the [...]

April 23 Lunch A cafe a child of maybe 3 or 4 she’s there with grandma she’s tyring to work out how to add ten million and ten million grandma’s got it sussed first she asks “what’s 4 plus 4″ “Eight’ says the child “and what’s fourty plus fourty” “Eighty” says the intelligent child “and [...]

April 24–The back pack    As i pack another set of belongings another mini life time I think of all the journeys we’ve been on how I bought it in 1987 for a trip to Europe that went all wrong because Lee-Anne broke my heart boo hoo shit, that was years ago! Eighty seven Easter [...]

May 6 “Debt to haunt our young” a newspaper headline today a baby’s born but she don’t know what’s coming she’ll have this debt burden hanging around for eternity as we’re bailing out ourselves out of this global finance crisis born from a Frankentstein concept of young bankers in the nineties who thought they were [...]

At the N-Tran there were workmen in luminous uniforms joking behind the toughened glass counter that curves around like the earth from space holding a galaxy of foods skewers with browned chicken waiting for some dipping sauce willingly supplied eggs cut into halves like microbes about to start multiplying Islands of Bacon smokestacks of spring [...]

A girl walking in front of me With track suit pants With wide bell bottoms Looks like they’ve been dragging in the dirt The rest of her Looking like she doesn’t care With strands of clumped up Greasy hair And a vacant disinterested stare Does anybody love her? Too many things Busy busy busy Catching [...]

Flying North I was offered an iced VoVo At fourty thousand feet by one of the queens sitting next to me. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind me talking about them in that way That was what they were. No doubt Mid to late fifty Hair grey Talking in that particular affected way One seemed to [...]

Returning from Phillip Island Driving in the rain Sky is grey Doing 80 The drops tap on the windscreen Must be cold out side Because the glass is beginning to fog Some meat stuck in my teeth Been annoying me For the last ten miles Been working it around my tongue Trying to get at [...]