Stereotypical Saccharines
Stereotypical Saccharines
Cliches have a kernel of truth to them. Then there's the remaining 99% of the corn.
i
my young green sugar cane
views the reeded world
reading outside my breadth, its shaky breeze
acre bends, dances and wilts. raw sugar of the angel
economically dependent doras and chocolate el dorados
ii
the Borromean ga(s)ps in American movies
choke throated and flow my sugary tears
salt to knot-floss, doe-eyed foe-eyed devotees
hug salvation and return to their left beaver homes
glut?
iii
the family circle trees of australiana genealogies
of kids in the kitchen, moving pictures
and shannon noll lowing what about me?
caster sugars aweigh! An anthem at the enemy.
sing! the world's gone home.
we whiney kids and kueches.
tears dried out, our iodine
we got our care years ago. It's all, alright now, really.
iv
all lumpers thunder with ire and gaggle
at chart-topping fantasies of being hard done by
and the only carpet bombing I've
heard or seen on the girth of the skirting boards
were for fleas the dog brought in.
oh childhood! most of the stoush
was about cash. going without and under.
pocket money the never to be seen again
crystal palaces for: when I was a kid. love.
vi
this all turns me back. paper boats in rainy gutters,
bat and ball, beaver cleaves, play nostos algos
dam busting and desert warfare
johnny came marching home
the wicked queen wants a mirror
to only say fair. alighting at kingsford-smith
she's asked by the wing what she thinks about this place.
what about you? she asks them all.
Cliches have a kernel of truth to them. Then there's the remaining 99% of the corn.
i
my young green sugar cane
views the reeded world
reading outside my breadth, its shaky breeze
acre bends, dances and wilts. raw sugar of the angel
economically dependent doras and chocolate el dorados
ii
the Borromean ga(s)ps in American movies
choke throated and flow my sugary tears
salt to knot-floss, doe-eyed foe-eyed devotees
hug salvation and return to their left beaver homes
glut?
iii
the family circle trees of australiana genealogies
of kids in the kitchen, moving pictures
and shannon noll lowing what about me?
caster sugars aweigh! An anthem at the enemy.
sing! the world's gone home.
we whiney kids and kueches.
tears dried out, our iodine
we got our care years ago. It's all, alright now, really.
iv
all lumpers thunder with ire and gaggle
at chart-topping fantasies of being hard done by
and the only carpet bombing I've
heard or seen on the girth of the skirting boards
were for fleas the dog brought in.
oh childhood! most of the stoush
was about cash. going without and under.
pocket money the never to be seen again
crystal palaces for: when I was a kid. love.
vi
this all turns me back. paper boats in rainy gutters,
bat and ball, beaver cleaves, play nostos algos
dam busting and desert warfare
johnny came marching home
the wicked queen wants a mirror
to only say fair. alighting at kingsford-smith
she's asked by the wing what she thinks about this place.
what about you? she asks them all.
7-8-2015
