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Behold, I bring you a straw to hang onto,
for it is cocktail hour and you are clearly drowning,
untroubled by many things. Perhaps
dishing out cigars etc.
to scores of fat old roosters
isn’t quite your idea of visiting Uncle.
Perhaps it isn’t mine either. Maybe
we both got here by mistake.
Whatever. After taking a bath
in your opinions, a feeling
of distant calm emerges
refreshed, albeit defeated by you,
long-legged attendant. Why shoot silent
bullets at me as the last man standing
comes out with his hands up?
Soon you’ll be an old rooster too,
offering a claw to hang onto.

© 2006, Chris Edwards
From: Nicked
Publisher: Vagabond Press, Sydney

Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards

(Australia, 1955)

Chris Edwards, whose poetry is marked by an extremely sharp and incisive wit, unusually coupled with an absence of malice, first began publishing poetry in the mid-1970s and from 1974–1976, with Cheryl Creatrix, edited and published Beyond Poetry, a free poetry broadsheet. He was closely associated with New Poetry during the later part of that decade, mainly as a contributor but also as the gue...

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Behold, I bring you a straw to hang onto,
for it is cocktail hour and you are clearly drowning,
untroubled by many things. Perhaps
dishing out cigars etc.
to scores of fat old roosters
isn’t quite your idea of visiting Uncle.
Perhaps it isn’t mine either. Maybe
we both got here by mistake.
Whatever. After taking a bath
in your opinions, a feeling
of distant calm emerges
refreshed, albeit defeated by you,
long-legged attendant. Why shoot silent
bullets at me as the last man standing
comes out with his hands up?
Soon you’ll be an old rooster too,
offering a claw to hang onto.

From: Nicked

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