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Brisbane Street Sketch 5

5:00 am - Happy New Year!

 

I look like I should be a musician not a poet.

 

"It's so easy being a poet

so hard being a man"

      - Charles Bukowski

 

----

 

5:14 am - Passing Rocklea, no sign of the dawn.

 

Coopers Plains station.

3 people get on.

 

Florescent lights cast a spell of sleep.

I wish I could sleep right now.

Eyelids droop like sad flowers  from a convenience store.

I write metaphors like a drunken amateur.

 

Trinder park - Sounds like a bad neighbourhood.

**** ME ITS WOODRIDGE.

 

Where even the McDonalds sign is ******

 

XxXxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx :

She could be fun. So tight, she sometimes felt  illegal.

Tight and bald. I would slide up to the *****

She loved it rough,

golden hair wrapped around my fingers

as she was pushed into the pillow.

She was loud in the mornings.

I could feel her tight ***

grinding against my thighs

as I ****** her harder  and harder.

Until I came :

either inside her.

Or on her chest.

Or in her

prim

pink

suburban mouth.

Tightening my grip on her hair as the hot ***** spurted against the back of  her throat.

The head of my **** throbbing as she gulped it down with silent satisfaction.

That only happened twice though.

 

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5:37 am - The Dawn begins to rise over the Suburban Nation.

 

Final remnants of night

twinkle like stars

against the silhouette

of society.

House lights

Street lights

(and the omnipresent)

fluorescent light.

 

Beenleigh station - A pinch faced older woman gets on.

Business suit, lunch box.

Short hair, glasses.

Her earrings are imitation mother of pearl

(step-mother of pearl?)

She  sits next to a window covered in graffiti.

Prim, tight  mouth

incarnadine lipstick.

 

Over in the distance a smokestack cuts through the sky above the horizon.

Trees do mask the sun and sky.

 

"Hippies; they spend their whole life trying  to get to a microphone and when they do, they don't tell anyone  to **** off." - The Wolfman.

 

----

 

5:52 am - One more stop.

 

The clouds  are the colour of smoke against the pearl blue sky.

 

----

 

6:00 am - Arrival.

 

Clouds are tinged with fire and blood

incandescently.

You can watch it spread and grow

with intensity.

 

Taxi driver  was  a foul mouthed Indian.

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Written by
lysander-gray
Australian
Published
May 22, 2013
Lines·Words
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Notes

I was trapped in Brisbane one evening from 'round midnight till 6am and kept a journal of my experiences, thoughts and rambles of the night in a stream of consciousness style.

Part 1: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/brisbane-street-sketch-1/

Part 2: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/brisbane-street-sketch-2/

Part 3: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/brisbane-street-sketch-3/

Part 4: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/brisbane-street-sketch-4/

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