He's So MASC by Chris Tse

Author:Chris Tse
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Present tension

Winter claims your shoulders first. Your neck tenses.

You side-step a dead hedgehog that keeps getting moved

from pavement to gutter and back again, like the world’s

simplest but least sanitary chess game. Back and forth

until someone concedes, or when the corpse falls apart.

There’s no strength in numbers when the number is one.

Waiting for a bus at this time of the year is like cycling

through the stages of grief, and there’s always a cup of tea

at the end of it. You keep telling yourself: Remember,

there was light yesterday, and sound too. The guy next to you

mumbles something about a sandy beach, or maybe

it’s a sandy bitch. Your focus cracks in this cold.

The overhead wires hum. The cellphone orchestra stabs.

Your body has never embraced the sounds of the present.

Maybe you’ll start to make an effort when you separate

necessity from decency. Of course, no one cares which

way you jump. Throw your voice to frame your fingers.

Throw your frame around the moon. Look back from

that lock and ask our world to be reasonable. Ants and

speckles. Toe-dips and smudges. Why bother undoing

when time comes back around to bite you in the arse?

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