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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 9. 1969.

Ward Six

Ward Six

In five minutes time my fingers are going to explode
time enough to rake under the dead nails of memory
and perhaps inspire
crystalline yet fibrous
metaphysical warts
to spring up in my cuticles
how we performed in those days
myself and my ferret-eared prick,
what exorcisms
with bell and
pornographic book
and anal candle
in four minutes time my fingers are going to explode
and the rings which I've made from fag ends
will shower ward six
with radioactive
seminal
dust.

Russell Haley

Sam Hunt

Sam Hunt