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Richard Wink
Late to the Party

Late to the gathering
seven fifty five
our friends are now sculptures
our bottles are brides
 
Lecture theatre leaches
cult smut gobblers
Jokes with added laughter
drenched in tap water atmosphere
created by green eyes
riding the curtain rail
carried away by the ceiling fan helicopter.
 
Casualties were taken
carted back by impatient taxi drivers
where tension simmered
in cubes of sugar,
the smell of coffee was nefarious
aroma coming
ambience going
paranoia rising -
the last four shoes in the hallway
belonged to us 
 
 
 
 
 
The Moth Woman
 
A Brand New Banshee
is caught in the curtains
her face open to the public
her shyness clumsy like a moth.
 
Spiraling cracks whimper as the mass of
material comes down under her struggle,
dissonant decorum
monochrome whine
she gets back to her feet
one leg at a time.
 
Sozzled, simmering she bares her soul
in the early evening,
prior to car after car
driving past
her starlit window
 

 
Ylayali

Carrying her outlandish blanket
tickled pink with flamingo feathers.
Ylayali highlighted poverty with a shivering demeanour,
she spent an afternoon reading about an existentialist pornographic actress named Sasha
in the local library.
 
Hot city sounds
exhaust pipe saxophones
milk bottle percussion,
they mark her every move.
 
She pinches a bottle from the corner shop
rolls it up in her outlandish blanket
and flees
setting off the light bulb in the head of the surprised shopkeeper
who had never seen a shoplifter
live in the flesh 



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