tuesday thursday run

24 August 2009
You wear glitter in your hair
You wear short dresses
and ripped stockings cut into shorts
underneath, shorter
short of nothing
but glitter around your eyes
(that came shortly after)

Across the road from the first place
17 October
2009
smoking some thing
some entertainment
when the glitter isn't strong enough
isn't shimmering anymore
isn't sparkly enough
September 2010
sometime
backwards swinging on a not-quite-chair
glitter scalp
some sparkle oozes from underneath your right shoulder blade and
slides down your waist skin
into the fold of your hip joint
down the inside of your leg
liquid shine, gold
burning hot melted gold glass
opaque

5 February 2011
some parasitic flying on the backs of winged squirrels
down 5am staircases
and coloured lightbulbs greener than the sand dunes
shit hits the $895, ever-spinning, mock chandelier, round and round forever or at least for a very long time fan
splatters around the living room worse than chocolate-covered pancakes
on all the living thing underneath
trying to live calmly
wanting no normality
seeking chaos but rejecting its arrival in reality
most unwelcome love

that typical triangle
where multiple multiples of three become involved
an entire class, say
and others
a public affair
but not in Women's Day
public but not publicised
not published
just secret usherings
hushings
under everyone's breath
dancing breath
ushering confrontation out the door
(there is no carpet)

and now September
the new September
September 2011
the glitter isn't strong enough
isn't shimmering anymore
isn't sparkly enough
ripped, short of something
it has escaped your body
oozed out of your left shoulder blade
slid down your waist
over your skin
and underneath
ripped
opening the folds of your hip joints
oozing down the insides of your legs
liquid tar burning but
you gave up smoking
sometimes, but
still there is tar in you
burning
sometimes
often too often
due to parasitic flying
and 5am meetings
appointments never scheduled yet you daren't miss
his coloured lightbulbs all colours

Shit hits the lightbulb
round and round
for a very long time
we are living
 under shit-splattered lightbulbs
all colours
but mostly
poo brown
most unwelcome love
shit-splattered
(there is no carpet)

We will clean it up for you
at the end of the holiday,
remember?
We clean it up for you
and of course we clean it up for you
We'll clean it up for you
no-one wants to be living underneath that

Please

We will replace all the coloured lightbulbs
and they will be brighter
and more colourful
multiple colours
a new September
Please don't let your lightbulb go out
for some other brighter colours
sure I favour red,
but here I can give you any colour you need
just be vulnerable
I don't even have to give you colour
someone else can
but one of us
there's a whole class worth
pick anyone
pick any colour
just be vulnerable
we'll put some more glitter on