POETRY AFTER TUSIATA
Naming Names
This is the place that I belong
Mark. Blue Crayon.
Isle.In Paper Cacti
Blue Sky Sin. Killawords.
Word Soldier. Tiger Bug.
Blank Shots. Cacti Juice.
Winds.nz wordwizard
Wild roads. Apple Rises.
Red Mustard. Suenil. Sonyl.
Syunis. Skit. Mark.
Word Warrior. Jet Blue Sky.
Rising Sands. Paperworks.in
Purepopcorn. Grasslands.
Tiger Cacti. Stray tiger.
Love a Tiger. Living dangerously.
Living on the edge. Flashy ideas.
Red chili. Wilderness. Wild roads.
Words Pic Me. Sunny mail. Copytiger.
Red Chili. In. Color by words. Tomato Reds.
Independence.in Renegade. OpenSpaces.
WildWalks. WildSkies. Footloose.
Wanton Sky. Tigerzinnz. Blue Sky.
TomatoStar. LadyBug. Tigeronthesun.
Leomon.in WordPickle. Redcactus.
Icetea.in. Sonyl. Sunil. Suneal.
Sundaymorning. Solin. Islet.in
Applets. Waterbuffalo. Suniel.
Ideasinaflash. Gobananas.
Red bananas. Endlessways.
Sledge.com Earthenpot.com
I really like to carry on
A sequel to wildblueskies.com
Is now blueskyfox.com
Crossing the Pacific
New Zealnd
Is the promised land.
A peaceful clan.
The pigeons unafraid
Walks in the park
The seagulls fly
Close to land
Oh New Zealand
A land of many clans
& lots of jobs, jobs, jobs
Bond N Bond + Connex
Chubb Security + First Security
Applications, Applications, Applications
And reject letter. One size fits all.
Sorry. Skills are good but in
This instance. Please feel free. Wish
You luck. Bye bye loser.
Economy is booming Immigrants happy?
Equal Opportunity. A rising mists.
Scientists and Doctors are taxi drivers
And Petrol Pumped Super Market attendants
A bloody myth.
Kiwi Experience. Can do attitude.
Won’t do for names that are not
Matt. Dick. Nick. Chris.
Wrong name. Wrong number.
Wrong color. Sorry.
No sweepers job. Or driver
Job. Or temping in Xmas.
Only large Whittecoll Santa
Stealing money from credit cards.
Let alone technical writing
Marketing guru jobs. Only
Shopkeepers that shout and
Young Maori boys and
old advertising farts. No.
Welcome. Kia Ora.
Saleable Crap
Where’s the fire?
Where’s the anger?
Discounts & Countdowns
Economy and Relief.
Growth and taxes.
Hopes and tears.
And millions of hearts.
About four.
Broken hearts
Charred. Scared.
Angry. Confused.
Walking Queen St
Bopping girls. Half boobs.
Shiny legs. Lipstuck smiles.
Cold hearts. Winston smiles
On Billboards.
Trying to calculate
crime rate and welcome
Foreign students.
Lost Yellow Souls.
Dark Day
It’s a dark day
The Korean Shop
Will overcharge
For condoms that are free
The Chinese lady will scream
On esteemed clients and customers
The kabab guy will go a Jihad in red
The Fiji Indian has Fiji hate for
Being abandoned in Otahuhu.
The Maori boy will abuse helpful
Strangers. He’s on P. on Pee.
On a bus to Lincoln West.
Paul will reject cause Paul
Hates the other Paul and
Takes it out on his students.
The Mormons will hope
In Manurewa in a large brown
Church in green skied grass
And Sesa will smile. She always
Smiles. Aries enthusiasm.
As the world wild goes further wild!
Oh Emma
Grey Lynn’s empty.
So is Waterview