Sport 29: Spring 2002
1YA
1YA
you get the radio on
& hear the bird of the day
which sounds like any other
whistle being fed into the 9
o'clock beeps with news
you know wellington is there somewhere
forming some sort of front.
there is a red light on the transistor
you got from the dick smith store
you are connected
by a tuner
from the volume you will come to know
all those people going about
their steps up up
into their warm lives
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to stay put from the wind
which is for sure a hurtler.
you will come to believe
that wellington lies inside a radio
& bleak is on a.m.
there will be much talk about
who the weather is heading for
& how wellington is forgot
of the sun.
& you will remember vic's uncle pat
of petone
& the smell of his hands
in the wet flatette
& how his loose phlegm cough
broke free of itself
on the carpet by your feet
you can turn wellington
off with your thumb.