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Lamppost Poem #23

I became a tree hugger to meet other tree huggers, but it turned out they only wanted to meet trees.

At our first meeting, I wrote my name with a wooden pencil, and I was accused of eating the flesh of a tree. I denied this, but realised I was chewing the end of the pencil, so I rectified the wooden and sticky situation by living with trees for a week, to learn about them, to be closer to them, to one day call them something other than ‘them’.

This tree is not a calculated thud on the ground. Phone calls are made with osmosis, but they never speak; only mumble. A sound is made when a lamppost collapses, but can it be heard if no one is around? Witnesses cannot see without a lamppost light, and are never heard from again, which isn’t too much of a shame considering their presence ruins the main condition of the question.

In forests, Lysander and Hermia throw away the candles and dine by lamppost light. He is not an expert in global warming, but in an alternate reality, he is. Paris in the Autumn is indifferent when a tree loses its leaves. I wear green, but feel blue. The polar caps melt, and somewhere, a tree laughs because the tree always gets the last laugh, as long as it isn’t Autumn.

I join a group of lamppost huggers to meet lampposts, but the other lamppost huggers are more interested in people.

I meet someone called Chris, and he says: “I don’t really like lampposts. I only joined to meet other lamppost huggers. I guess that I’m a people person.” I look at him with disgust, and notice that he wears gloves whenever he touches a lamppost, which he only ever does if Cynthia is watching. It turns out his real name is Juke or Child or something like that, but it doesn’t matter. In my head, I am still anti-Chris. I am the anti-Chris.

In a thunderstorm, don’t stand under a tall true. It’s funny because it’s tree.

I stand in Raferton, a city where artworks speaks for itself, but only in the language of graffiti. The grass is grey and cemented, and leads to libraries and pet shops that only sell fireworks. The city has two fingers down its throat, but licensed a professional artist to paint flowers on brick corners; the flowers are painted dead with the artist’s signature above them. Love letters and birthday cards are undelivered, but never unwritten. Traffic lights have staring contests with drunk strangers who wonder where their day has gone, wondering if it will ever return to give them a second chance to live their day and do nothing again. The city is an insomniac, always awake when the night breaks, and it aches and aches in the city, the sick Dalmatian, the tree hugger who hugs a lamppost, the last child to find its happy meal, and I love it, I love the lampposts, I love the graffiti, I love the city, I love the spindles of chlorophyll and incandescent light-emitting diodes.

: 01 May 2010 04:07 |  Tags: Death Dinosaurs Ectoslavia Fossils Lamppost Love Malkmus Peninsula Poetry Voldemort |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

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An extract from: A Day in the “Life” of Kenicky

Here, at last, I hear
a gasp, and rejoice – is it hope?
A voice tells me: nope.

Another dirty dream
about capitalism, and the sheets
are stained with poverty.

The mourning: open the curtain,
maybe go sole searching;
find a toe, behind my neck,
aching at half-mast.

At last, out of bed: breakfast;
out of bread, so have
uncooked toast instead.

I eat cereal with petrol instead of milk
because the taste is more refined,
although my car won’t start.

Ironically, I hitch-hike on a milk float,
paying petrol money
seventeen voodoo dolls,
each resembling the queen,
if she was shaped like a coin.

: 02 Apr 2010 21:31 |  Tags: Death Dinosaurs Lamppost Malkmus Pavement Peninsula Voldemort |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

I am appalled, disgusted, embarrassed and ashamed, yet slightly aroused

Everyone knows about mother-in-law jokes, so a few days ago I invented brother-in-law jokes.

My Brother-In-Law (work in progress)

I asked my brother-in-law:
“Working hard or hardly working?”
He said: “I’ve spent the last few hours
crying alone in the dark.”

My brother-in-law cries himself to sleep.
In the middle of the night, I bring him glasses
of water, so that he isn’t too dehydrated.

My brother-in-law would be my favourite
person if he was as funny as he thinks he is.
He isn’t. All he ever does is cry all day.

My brother-in-law asked for a book to read
because he gets bored at night;
his overwhelming sadness means he can’t sleep.
I lent him a copy of The Bell Jar.

My brother-in-law is secretly in love
with one of my friends. I told him
that we all know and regularly laugh at him
behind his back.

My brother-in-law is finally seeking
professional help. I think he’d be better off
with a punchline.

: 21 Jan 2010 02:07 |  Tags: Dumbledore Fossils Hearts Love Malkmus Peninsula Snape Voldemort |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem