Now, the sun wears his heart
on hundreds of bright tongued sleeves
“You think you’ve had desires? - Take a look mine”
These are eternal
they burn through space
piercing clouds
scorching anything your infant earth throws
up and out of its air conditioned cot
“You think galaxies stop forming just because you have a broken heart?”
I am the sun
and I will never [...]

Look up at the black
sky
rain falls like stars
crashing straight into wide open eyes
sci-fi warp speed movie credits
bouncing off my cheeks and splashing into the hot pools around us
couples canoodle and kids dive bomb into cooler containers
back-lit rain melds with steam
to furnish this heated hyper-sensory stage set
all naked flesh and liquids
something gets thrown out of a [...]

I ask the girl waxing my legs
whether her particularly violent ripping motions come from thoughts of someone she doesn’t like?
She supposed not.
But, after a pause,
once mentioned,
her sadism increased noticebly.
I walk free
then look back down from Grafton’s Hill
a train passes
so few passengers inside
and I choke up
today was the first day an ambulance fought its way through [...]

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things is not the same .
Can you guess which one of these doesn’t belong here?
Now [...]

forward thrusting
knocking back God
in a glass
libation
after sickeningly strong
libation
impotent
silently whining
the gates are closing
while you stare
dead
straight
ahead