Author: waby eliott
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ON BEING COLD
freshest of winds, tingling skin hair is being spat out and swallowed back in wind-water cry from the small of the eye tear from the tear duct streams to the ear bloodblister lips, fingerless fingertips the creature the cold is, laughs as it whips a nugget of warm in the pit of the arm dig…
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DRE:AM POEM
why aren’t i a hero?isn’t everybody a hero?no! nobody’s a hero!a lady came in and spoke chinesei was burning to ask her this question:are you the rocks and sand beneath my feet?yes, we are the rocks and sand. i had a few dre:am poems in china that explored an interesting surreal side of life. i…
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BEIJING DRE:AMS
beijing is living in pink and grey. people are as slow as their cold fingers. rub at them on the metro. rub at them on the bus. all the buildings are grey, save for the pink ones. housing is pink or grey, skyscrapers are grey, with shimmers of pink. the mists are a deathly grey…
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CALLUSED HAND
from your old callused hand to the last living strand of hair that sprouts feebly like black sunbaked seaweed with earlobes enormous and eyeballs a-milky these wrinkles put dimples all over your flesh crawling in mongst the shadows of large concrete buildings and rooting the gutter for edible matter which is torn in your hands…
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LAST DAY IN OASIS TOWN, DESERT
-the wind was seething, heavy. -after waking, and gazing at the pummelled window -i pulled my patchwork desert gear into a bag. -i borrowed some sandals, a bike, and ate a healthy bowl of noodle. -then peddled scowling at the wind. -in the town, in the open maze of buildings, -the sands were kept at…
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SKP
the hat was a little too smug the morning turned into a bug with my freehand i waveddown a fastspeeding car and poured into the door from a jug the morning incredibly thin the sun scuttled up with a grin the black leather bag with its money and buckles hung grasped by the scruff in…
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FOLLOW THE WEED SMOKE
follow the weed smoke. here 3 boys sit on a bench by a fence in a field with a hedge and a road and a row of young houses they are grinning they are talking they get serious somewhere walking then they joke when they smoke follow the weed smoke. here’s a girlfriend with a…
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TREE
the soul of my feet kiss the seat of the sky my head buried deep as a bone my arms splayed akimbo, away from my side my trunk is a gnarly old throne a child sits under my leafy green shade drinking the juice from a lime the crust is my college, i suck dirt…
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HORSE
enter the field of the galloping stallionkicking up mud like a young rapscallionclods of mud in the clean cut airnostrils flicker while the white eyes glareflaming mane and thumping legswarily edge back, back to the hedgeviolin bow tail, violin wailhoofprint, horseshit, horseshoe trailstrange thing with the wigwam skinbucktooth beast with the habsburg chinhorse in the…
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IMMIGRANT
this song is dedicated to all migrants, immigrants, emigrants, nomads, refugees, and foreigners. may your wondering feet take you where you need to be and may the rabid forces of border control and beaurocracy disappear from your holy lives. lyrics: .. far away on another continentshe looked up at the stars, hand on her heart,…