trouble-maker with tint of rouge and gray. This school-yard tough still picking on the corner weakling. braggadocio and upstart spoiling for a fight first elbow up, each foot in a fray. 21 Back to the Contents Page 

 

CUBITS

A woman is a trough hardly that -- a river, a pond to sail a small boat thru, rapids to manoeuvre. A woman commandingly tall receptive as water, quicksilver to the light yet mirages all. Two cubits to an arm's length a bridge to span, virgin territory with the compass needle jumping -- a plane dusting crops. A woman once, parchment twice warm treacle to the core -- a marshmellow for a heart. 22 Back to the Contents Page 

 

BUZZ PHRASE

Down on your luck or, as they say, "financially embarrassed" ... with little in the way of hope, less palaver -- drifting in & out of theme parks not unlike El Paso, Prairie Junction between jobs, causes and wives... letting "it all hang out", in the jumble of the moranese letting despair and the pig iron law of economics have their say -- shouting "moral support" in the face of the rocky "well-wisher". I read all the plots and each ends up as a grave... once in a single afternoon I even gave up on golddiggers who, though just passing through meant dress rehearsal for the bigger jive, "long_term" and since when should "patching up and catching up" make starry-eyed even that slip of a girl, commitment. 23 Back to the Contents Page 

 

AMBERGRIS CITY

Felt no pain against the water, the tea-cup sky was a turquoise colour in its wrath illuminating ambergris city in spot checks below. The sperm whale population was in decline. Little or nothing remained of former commitments. A bitter legacy consumed itself in half-truths against the sound of upturned lies. Winding alleys come as the conscience of well plaid cities. are open zippers revealing the indecent poor. The fire hydrant lives of cellar inhabitants strain these urinals for wretches sniffing out the edge of completed walls. Gray nuisances, the men in asbestos overalls finding their way through the apricot fire of dark, eclipse Park Plazas with the stately elegance of empty dinner dishes or red trash cans against indentured snow. 24 Back to the Contents Page 

 

WINCING

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