June 1st

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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