Something Something Something

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A bird is carrying
Strips of river garbage
Flapping from its beak
Up into the trees

A dog called Charlie
Is fighting with Ruby
Tied to a chair
And over there

Their humans
Under headphones
Doing slow a Zumba
Or whatever
To an instructor

A whistle dangle
On a chain
A twisted and unclaimed
Bus stop umbrella

Something are the words to
That headsong
Following you around all day
Like a toothache
Like a heartbreak
Like a sunny with
A chance of rain
No, stormy with the
Chance of a change
Something
Something
Something

Noisy Miners
Chicken salt chips
At the charcoal chicken shop
Out by the hospice

Eightieth birthday
Telling how the nuns
Used to beat her
And lock her under the stairs

A toddler lets loose
A balloon toward the sun
Howls into the future
The injustice, the terror

Placated by an ice cream
Brakes on the stroller
Scolding the brother
An anger of fingers

Something are the words to
That headsong
Following you around all day
Like a toothache
Like a heartbreak
Like a sunny with
A chance of rain
Like the gathering
Of cats in a lane
How they stare at you
As if they're to say
Something
Something
Something

The burnt out sedan
Left withered airbag
In the High Street
With a fresh parking fine
Hey mate, you got a light?
You got a light?
You got a light?
No, I got a song
I gotta headsong
That follows me around

~ Brendan Bonsack 2024



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