Tropeland by Rob Walker

Author:Rob Walker [Walker, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781925281064
Publisher: Five Islands Press
Published: 2015-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Cliché Anti-verse

in the cliché anti-universe

police are not baffled by the criminal

who had an unlucky escape

the opposition leader’s raft of measures

sinks as all options fall off the table

the PM hits the ground walking

facing a downhill battle

vegans flesh out proposals

meat is doing it tough

in the third kitchen drawer down

a fork is balanced on a knife edge

an accident not waiting to happen

Paperclips

lie unobserved for eons in dormant drawers

aggregating into metallic daisy chains

surreptitious cleaners of ears

and fingernails

cursive O clones in exile from

the family Alphabet

keeping poems together long enough for the submission

to be passed over never to be returned

unbespoked to be poked into computers

by the technoclueless

emergency eject tools

for the CD

lockpickers/simcard removers/

pre-digital pdf attachers

diasporas of whole packets from office stationery

cupboards to dark domestic drawers

languishing unused but for income tax forms

and bundles of applications to The Bank

gliding on and off more subtly

than the body-piercing staple

more fileable than the bulldog clip

they sit waiting to be uncoiled

a steel trap of overlapping tongues

binding the disparate into one

never wear out yet live

uneventful dread-filled lives

awaiting the day they fall

into distracted idle hands

their undoing

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