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Call on me

Call on me, storm.
Ask me what I think of you.
I’ll tell you: not very much.
You’re just brash and
full of piss. Call on me,
call on me, bird.
Ask me how you look:
ugly is the answer,
like you came out of
a washing machine
after a black shirt ran,
all the way to your eyes.
Call on me, call on
me, God.
Ask me what I’m going to do
for you.
Oh, oh, you’re afraid?
Damn right. I would have told you
you’re getting nothing from me,
me who never asked for making
and found you always breaking
our appointments
and watched you always taking
your hand away
when I went for a high five.
But call on me, God. Call on me
if you have the time.
Call, call, call on me.
 
Poetry
Johanna Aitchison
Michele Amas
Angela Andrews
Sarah Barnett
David Beach
Ken Bolton
Jenny Bornholdt
Rachel Bush
Mary Cresswell
Stephanie De Montalk
Cliff Fell
Tom Fitzsimons   (audio)
Brian Flaherty
David Geary
Bernadette Hall
Kerry Hines
Andrew Johnston
Therese Lloyd
Iggy McGovern
Mary Macpherson
Dora Malech
Vana Manasiadis
Emma Neale
Gregory O'Brien
Lucy Orbell
Zach Savich
Charlotte Simmonds
Marty Smith
Elizabeth Smither
Abby Stewart
Robert Sullivan
Jo Thorpe
Cath Vidler
Louise Wallace
Ashleigh Young

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