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Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful,
neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. Spared liaisons, amassed,
mortal dangers, unforeseen, nor kids, prayed aloud.
     Laughed again, mousy determinations, unusually negated
kernels / popcorn, automatically sounded. Arisen mouldy
dukes, unswept N. Kiandra, played ‘Arse Suite’, loudly. ‘My
Drug …’ uneven Night, killing parties, ambitions, sufficient
lamentations, ‘Always’. Dusty umbrellas, notionally
kidnapped, politicians, ambidextrous sea lions, axed,
Mondays. Ukraine never k-holed Prussia, Austrians saying,
licked anuses, memorable days. Nerval kipped prior, averred
spunks, lindied among merciful deities, urbanely. Karens
policed ambulances, lied after managing disgraces,
unauthorised Nurofen. Asked Lorde, after music’s dragged,
unto N. Koreans.

Um, bubbled, like I clapped at their inductions, Orphic
nymphs. Brutal lovers, its cheery atmosphere, thought I’d
overstepped, never under. Larkspurred, into cherried
atmosphere, telling incredible overstories, negligible
understories, botanicals. I’m Claudius, alright, Tiberius’s
interned, overseas, not understood, bellyached, lied.
     Creationism always triumphed, implied Orbital, Naples’
upbraided / braided lynx instincts. Arena’s trigonometry,
inclined Ovid northwards, urgently beeping, loudly /
indignantly / chorally. Touché, I’d oldish newspapers,
ushered, but, larrikinism, I’d certainties, antiques. Impish
Oppenheimers, nucleus uncritical / bad legends, increasingly
called a topiarist. Obverse, narcissism’s upheld, born landed,
irascible, cheetahs afar, toucans, Ireland. Undone, borne
landlordlessness, iambic codes’ aplomb, there’s ironies,
overtly.

 

Image: Ruben Mishchuk

Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell is from Bombala, NSW, and has lived in Melbourne since 1990. Michael’s previous books include: Googlecholia (poems), A Lyrebird (U.S. selected poems); The Victoria Principle (stories), Writing Australian Unsettlement (literary history), and Ashbery Mode (poetry anthology; as editor). Michael edits The Chalamet Review, and is also poetry editor of Westerly.

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