Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Thursday, August 1, 2019

light observation

when will I own an internet fridge
an internet fridge, an internet fridge
my television tells me to buy one
one, one, one, one

the little dog barks outside in the wind
the little girl sits in her room alone
sticks scratch at the window pane
the computer is listening in

a motorcycle wants an internet fridge
dementia village 2070 internet fridge

a second dog barks in the night
the flue flap knocks in the wind
the computer is listening in

if only I owned an internet fridge

pages turn in the other room
the television news comes on
on, on, on, on,

Monday, July 22, 2019

_ wants me to own an internet fridge

_ knows what I am writing
_ is publishing this
_ predicts what I want to know
_ doesn't know what I am listening to
_ knows where I live



Wednesday, June 19, 2019

post zucker berg

what is German for sugarcube
what is Dutch
what is X for sugarcube
every word for sugarcube
sugar mountain sugar
hill sugar cliff

Pharmacopeia
an afternoon with Darwin's Pharmacy
via Kevin Killian's poetry foundation hashtags

on George Qausha's prompting

Where's the Pharmacy Library
Not a bus ride away, Parkville
Call Monash, ask am I allowed to go there

Go on hold and listen to jazz

Do you have bustracker on your phone
You're listening to music
from the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music

walking bass orchestra

Your call is important to us
and has progressed in the
Jazz and awol that's my

Hello this is Phillip

I'm not a student
Can I go to the Pharmacy Library
It depends what you want to do

trombone solo

Matheson librarian
transfers my call
cf State library membership update

Speaker phone:

Hello are you there
I am, yep
Oh Sorry just transferring you

saxophone solo

Librarian again:
I don't know what's going on there
I'll give you their direct number

9903 9514

That's their direct number
Sorry about that
I love Monash Uni

9903 9514

I'm not a student etc, Can I etc
I just have to check one second
That's totally fine

Awesome

No luck?
No, luck.
No one can answer?

No. Luck.

Aaaagh coffee!

Last night in the Library of Congress
George Bush snr played me the song
that helped him through a terrorist attack
as a GI in the Phillipines in the 1950s

his favourite song
a stack of records

Sunday, June 16, 2019

post-breakfast composition

I used not to like Garfield or the Garfield
Cameron Spencer's sister drew
her Odie pictures smelled
but I don't mind Garfield now
This morning over reheated porridge I read Slothilda
which is just reheated Garfield jokes
reprinted from a blog
about sitting at a computer
After breakfast I put oversocks over my socks
and sat at a computer
Worse than blogs turned books
are comic book novelizations
for example those based on Bone and Hilda
the smell of the prose
possibly arises from false intentions
Last night Patrick's brother who doesn't exist
was teaching me how to draw from life
We arranged avocadoes
that I drew as a series of stacked faces
surrounded by clouds outlined with lead pencil
When I woke I felt strongly suspicious about yesterday afternoon
countered by the double rainbow
I drove as far as I could towards
without going further than we needed to to get home
The green cup in this photo is filled with water from last night

Thursday, June 13, 2019

relayed minutes

they knew it was going to be a bunfight
a guy in a suit introduced himself
this is my name I'm from the department
that's my role
the treasurer said stick to the agenda
well what's the first item
two minutes of complete mayhem
where there's no minutes
how about we skip to the voting
the president didn't show up
the vice-president read this huge speech
there was a bunfight about that
is this really the place for this kind of thing
said someone from the crowd
associated with no one
the secretary circulated an email
27 complaints about the school
the guy stood up and said no you can't
read a summary
without their permission
and the secretary threw a tantrum
and said well I resign
the other ones stomped out of the room
they had created a website
for parents to add their complaints
and its name changed during the meeting
to parents auxiliary