John Tranter

 

Barbarians


To be an equity issue in this is all you can expect;
in the statehouse today old McAfee
told his story, and none too soon.
He is only local news in a local court, but
I was as worried as anyone. All the media
were there, barbaric on the video phones.
They’re seeing it like so: he has a free kick.
Did you say ‘What happened to the eighties?’

Are they the only ones saying this lady
made a few dents in the system,
took her doses —  I see it as two doses —
and then a plea bargain for the shopping assault?
This edition paints it as a gamble on love, or
a kiss too soon, or Mondo music and a new full moon.



Bottom of the Harbour


Maria today got a heap of stuff,
all she can use for a month.
Taylor said she should make one
for the Indian, that is, the male person
originally from the subcontinent
and since she just wasn’t being the buyer
for two of them, she said no.
This had an effect on the warrior courtroom

until all of that month had gone by,
or do you mean that the U.S. should give up
the Cold War tactics shown on the
Canton blankets? We use them to keep warm,
for goodness’ sake, it’s a case of being up at dawn
bottom-feeding in and around the drowned cathedral.




 


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