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Bronwyn Lang
Australia

Marginalization - Pauline Canlas Wu
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Bronwyn Lang is an Australian poet currently completing her PhD in Creative Arts / Poetry. She is looking to interview anyone who knew the late Vicki Viidikas (1948-1998) and can be contacted at swap.meat.collective@gmail.com
part one

he turns up twice
between two am and three
sleepless
strung out
semi-incoherent

she’s left him
taken the kids
and the credit cards
the car
cleaned out their accounts
driven back to Mildura
bitter as citrus
to stay with her brother
Stevo and his pit-bulls
semi automatics
and long term
speed psychosis

she knows
no one’s ever
sick or stupid or sorry enough
to show up there






part two

banging stolen saucepans
shouting  shrieking 
up the street
he still hasn’t slept
and is desperate
to sell us
the stuff he’s flogged
since the last time
he was here

his speech haphazard
slips between
the sorry business with his missus
sci-fi blockbuster philosophy
and salesman’s spruik
for the future

he’s got a ride
is getting sorted in the city
which reminds him
to catch the need
for swift goodbyes

rushed in departure
he gives us free
life-vests
he came to sell
and thieved specifically
with us in mind
these are 
his last known
movements
running in the sunshine
wearing one of my shirts
and a pair of Simon’s shoes
getting out of town
to score more shit





user/friendly/fire

shooting yourself in the foot

missing the vein

tacit complicit
assisting

hovering

two inches higher

angel style
from the situation

medi(c vacuous)

sit

you (in situ)

in elation
I’m soothing

e/yes/yes
on the prick

puckering

slipping steel

through
skin
and
opening into

rapture