June 1st
- JANE CLIFTON
- Jun 3, 2025
- 1 min read
the morning paper
downloads
in a flash
the morning what?
tiny line bleeds
straight across
my tablet and
in seconds
voilà
all is revealed
a world away
from
foraging for
shrink-wrapped
tubes of ages
West Australian
boomerangs
landing on the roof
or in the
kangaroo paw
saw you creep
in your pyjamas
without undies
thrashing through
the fallen leaves
and bindies
freezing boiling windswept
never did quite
train the dog
to fetch
the cyber paper
looks just like the real one
not the website
that’s for morons
who prefer their
digest predigested
who are not averse to
scanning solely
Sydney sanctioned stories
no
the one with slideshow pages
that you turn
by swiping
past the catalogues
of Harvey
no more wiping
of black fingers
smutty hands
no more hoarding
by the fireplace
while you read in
Ireland Ipoh Istanbul
Germany and France.
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