Grey Lynn (12.00 noon)

[photograph: Jack Ross (2006)]

Every girl’s a babe

in Jackworld
Annora’s mother

pilloried on 12 o’clock TV
not answering the door

We’ve had her up before
she’ll keep on doing it

untilunspoken
feral old man

tethered in the yard
titanic mounds

of garbageThey’re afraid
of dinging up their cars

They always stop
comforting me

when I stalked out of Poetry
Livea good kind woman

turned into the butt
of media mikes

& yetthe squalor
freaked me out

that dark reporter …

Grafton (11.30 am)

[photograph: Jack Ross (2006)]

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Don’t want to just be intellectual
The way I feel is sexual
– MORE FM

Twisting my rubber arm
bronze blue
VALISÈRE

Mocha almond
Jellytip
Cookies & cream

OUR ALLEGIANCE
IS NOT TO A CREED
NOT TO A BOOK

NOT TO A CHURCH
BUT TO THE GREAT
SPIRIT OF LIFE

Oh shitoh shucks

K Rd (3.30 pm)

[photograph: Jack Ross (2006)]

This DVD contains everything there is to know
about Stargate … & more!

Everything there is to know
& more

They got it slightly wrong
for

Everything
you ever wanted to know

Tempting, though
to take them at their word

fill in the blanks
fulfil the prophecy

Just like that waitress
pulled back from

her breaktime cigarette
by one more customer

arriving
or the cell-phone girl

left in the middle
of her afternoon

TRUST UP sewn
on her Bermuda shorts