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Sport 36: Winter 2008

wherever i am, where are you?

page 140

wherever i am, where are you?

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road sign says desert road open caution high winds the colonel complains the algebra problems are too easy the kids are fingerpainting farewells on toilet walls you're hauling out your voice and throwing it against the chairs when the second lieutenant comes he stops short at your collarbones, 'i thought they broke a whole carton of eggs,' he says, 'do you mean to say you got me down here for nothing?'

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tied-together fifteen-year-old girls start resuscitation attempts at dreams the psychiatrist came she laughs, 'a man, holding a needle!' she throws backpacks in the valley of horses yells 'mum!' to an empty kitchen warm glove water plunge stuntwoman lost her baby found a poplar at the bonnet edge sarah died doing CPR on a man lost to heart attacks rain lacks promise to crouch for men whose faces shout at you in short claps i'll wait for them swinging rope against backdrops so black they'll have to name it a new colour

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'the woman who found us thought we were no longer alive' alive i want to get up with flies come on baby hand over your body this is one from which you shall never recover laugh if you want to but i'll find out your kids squirt maggots in their sandwiches the lesson today is your daddy is a rapist for homework find his face write in it spit into his pupils look straight wee boy two a little older than you & female whom he stopped to abort that sweet english countryside spring-summer day