Starless Auckland Sky

from Flatmate Coup D'etat by Ex-Partner

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Push down on the pen,
lines form at the theme park.
I ride words in carriages of letters.
I’m not trying to mumble,
just pretending to be humble while winging singing to my social betters.

But where there is no room, where my thoughts are not needed
let me stain the stage with my tears.
Can I occupy space,
will you report my face
if I deign to comment, my dears?

Before you're listened to your client’s ear must be courted and whispered into on a ferris wheel,
and though I may be too depressed to
pucker up and undress you,
let language, the lover, tell you his spiel ...

You’re so pretty tonight under the starless Auckland sky
we can go skinny-dipping in the litter-strewn sea.
Watch what bad ideas float
in our dream-dredged moat
cos our town’s ugly but we needn’t be.

You and I will end up as foul-weather friends
We'll be the very envy of every other side’s greener grass.
In our little house on the hill,
beyond the shadow of capital
through my larynx, air shall then pass.

Though it’s not always gonna be what you want to hear
At least it’s got cotton candy, rides and souvenirs.
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A dim and bloodless sun looms low along the horizon.
Two under-slept teens are attempting to decode what it's symbolising.

We're so lucky.
Aren't we so lucky? We're so ...
To live comfortably and love the govt,
We're so lucky.

Isn't it great to be told what you are,
to have someone else define you.
I'm so grateful for the experience of having every move I make be read into.
We're so lucky, we're so lucky.

Aren't we lucky Labour youth hand out gummy bears laced with acid,
and then we hold hands and sing 'God of Nations' on A.N.Z.A.C. day?

Reality is gaslighting me at the grey rainbow party.
We're drinking media poison at hell's lavatory.

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from Flatmate Coup D'etat, released October 20, 2020

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