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Each day I skate tectonic plates
\nthe disconnect is now the norm
\nreality\u2019s a fracture zone
\nGuernica at junior high
\nthe all-girl band at Kobe Quay
\nswings American Patrol
\ntoo young to see the irony.
\nI smile and share the joke alone.<\/p>\n
And in the aisles of Bon March\u00e9
\nMulligan and Brubeck groove
\nlike someone took the Books of Man
\nand Space and Time and cut them up
\nthen threw the pieces to the wind
\nand they (and I) just landed here\u2026<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n finalist, Australian Poetry Centre\u2019s Making sense of it <\/em>National Poetry Competition, May 7, 2010. First broadcast as an audio poem on In other words<\/em> SYN FM Melbourne 90.7 FM. Also in tropeland<\/a> (Five Islands Press) 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each day I skate tectonic plates the disconnect is now the norm reality\u2019s a fracture zone Guernica at junior high the all-girl band at Kobe Quay swings American Patrol too young to see the irony. I smile and … Continue reading
Published in Friendly Street Poet\u2019s Sorcerers and Soothsayers<\/em> (ed. John Pfitzner & Tracey Korsten) 2011<\/p>\n