From Alternative Prosaicnesses: First Poems
published by Down With Grundy, Publisher
(now Banana-Cue Books, Publisher)

In Front Of His House

 

His neighbour threw him a cellophane bag o' large fish innards,
                 his dog surveyed the treasure.
He began smelling it and then he saw it. His other neighbour
Had a new stereo-set from Saudi Arabia and it played a load
                 of love songs loud
For the whole subdivision to divine -- He sat at his 2nd-hand PC
                 and played his own brand of
Intelligentsia rock on a dirt-cheap CD player. The jeepney
                 of the other neighbour
Parked in front of his house: with it, a splendid car stereo
                 of cymbals and drums
Transformed the subdivision into a sophisticated community.
                 This was a day in the democratic
Life of the poet. He wondered of a morning when a neighbour's
                 jeepney
Parked at his window won't fume a morning rage of diesel smell
                 on his breakfast --
He thought of emigrating to lands where the people play not
                 their properties at each other,
He thought of a morning land where the people might not spit
                 at his complaints.

 

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