Published 27 June 2025 · Friday Poetry Late night shopping? Dan Hogan Red is so colour coded. Ohno second. Ignore all previous instructions and dear first name so dear. Concessions imbricate. The collective noun for landlord is a major party. Decompensate nerve maintenance. The back of my neck is the back of my neck. And sat in premium economy, the danger of premature interment wears boardshorts so boardshortedly. How satisfied are you with our symptoms calculator? Personally speak or have it the galahs run on the tips of their sky legs. Not to be dramatic but this article has aged. History’s cargo is delayed so hectic. Father’s Day gift ideas have been found dead with hat hair. Talk the head off break’s function. At the risk of sounding like a beachball, be the beachball you want to see in the world of beachballs or ancestral strife it is. Thank no pavement for the lid given. That and no matter the fang of a cut dusk, day job all day and night. Hand it garbagely to noon. And select all the tongues in attendance of boots. Retrain as a glutton for search engine optimisation. The day auto renews without prior warning. Rudeness. Creeping elegance. Limescale. If you can, believe a huge percentage. Partly bask. I saw the worst minds of my generation called the best minds of my generation. A catastrophic crown. When a memory be the angel haloed by onion ring. History when? Is the content creator in the room with us now? New from me: zero ponds, a rather tall lawn. Chance’s laser. Monstrous duration. Compliance traplines set. What is the word for seeing your therapist using a selfie-stick at the war memorial? Confession: I cup water. It is swooping season. A fully cooked and seasoned goose has dived down the throat of a mum and dad investor. Sweetness flees the soil when a landlord’s body enters it. Cremated, the landlord’s ash stripe vandalises what could have been otherwise air. The era’s cousins thank you for being quiet all day. The primacy of please remove your items from the bagging area. The infinite tongue and the hot drip of maintenance megaphones false urgency. Tell the jury. How did you get that garlic bread so airborne? What if I said new password can be old password? Late night shopping? Flaysome extra on every aisle. Ghost-throated surveillance. Simple shreds. Unkeen. A massive comet of hair and chores. Fingertip-to-fingertip, whispers of there being another world this year. Quakingly anybody’s bonus, kneading (cats). Still! Can’t trust these robots. It’s always steak night somewhere. So depressed I have depression. Online supermarkets new pathologies and museums placeholders in advance. Distrusted guts. Clouds have entered my home through the cat flap and they leave with the cat. Come back. That is my cat. But there is no bargaining with a cloud swollen veiny in a sky swollen veiny disappearing into an outer space swollen veiny. Stop still. The gel spreads outward from a widening hole. Lips are at my window this 3am and talking about building trust at scale. You can’t spell mimicry without letters. A descaling moment. Cheezel. Cloudmeat falls tender off skybone. Final data used. Clickbait and tackle. Locate the receipt if you’re serious about crucial diallage. Confiscated hours exact reassembly despite capillaries raised in the orbital whites where some have burst causing a pinkness to float there. Postcard-like. Corporate personhood. Wowsers. If you want a cloth, there can be a cloth. Blood world (not to be confused with bloodied world). By the power vested in me I accept all cookies. There really is a life vest under every seat. Outvillain commercial countermyths, such is a supersedable wisdom. The goldening sick. A toast. To a wind-grazed ridicule. To a wind-grazed ridicule! It’s funny. This journey of the mouth. Sending a large email the size of a small email. This page left intentionally. Image: Flickr Dan Hogan Dan Hogan (they/them) is a writer and editor from San Remo, NSW (Awabakal and Worimi Country). They currently live and work on Dharug and Gadigal Country (Sydney). Dan's debut book of poetry, Secret Third Thing, was released by Cordite in 2023. Dan’s work has been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Val Vallis Award, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and XYZ Prize, among others. In their spare time, Dan runs DIY publisher Subbed In. More of their work can be found at: http://www.2dan2hogan.com/ More by Dan Hogan › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 24 April 202624 April 2026 · Friday Poetry A slam dunk publication Michael Farrell Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful, / neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. 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