sarah
it’s my fault for being
too generous
i met her at the roulette table
an hour later we were having a bubble bath
for the first time
she felt like a tourist
in the morning
i queued to inspect the museum
she went for food
two hours later i saw her in an alley
eating the hair clogging up the drain
9-2-030
excrement is legal tender
banned olympians organize miss nude competitions
lickshunmewah is a language
fifty six ninety two year olds
from sri lanka dance to taranaki
romance three eighteen year olds from alamein
cut their heads off and sell them to alice cooper
for fifty dollars
send photo &
two
pieces of fruit
aphelia’s skin
michelle asked the cool dude
in our class to be her dadiast lover
he said:
‘if
ya paint yrself in a corner
i’ll
think about it’
on the weekend
we saw her in aphelia’s skin
wearing a screen door
nearly
falling
off
its hinges
&
the afterthought of
the siberian express
the cool dude
thought that was pretty cool
so did we
Bio
Michael Riley's poems have appeared, or are set to appear,
in Going Down
Swinging, Lilylit Review, Muse Apprentice Guild, Liquid Muse,Tryst,
LiNQ,
Ink Mag, Stylus Poetry Journal, Social Alternatives and elsewhere.
He lives
in Melbourne, Australia.
