Rallentanda

Rallentanda

Friday, November 6, 2009

Poetic Asides...November 6

Prompt...blanket,covering or covered

A blanket of nicotine
sitting at the desk
coughing and spluttering
the reek of cigarette smoke
wafting in through the window
enough to kill a brown dog
mongrels to the left chainsmoking
mongrels to the right chainsmoking
hanging out of windows
a xmas tree of lit fags
dropping like fire rain
from heaven upon the place beneath
on my car
an endless shuffle of itnerants
Right,I'm sealing all the windows
I 've got this covered
forgot to take into account the need for air
one needs to breathe in a Sydney summer
OK (cough).... I'm moving out(cough) today!

4 comments:

  1. Hi Rall,

    Don't you just hate secondhand smoke?! Good luck with the move.

    P.S. WV is "alloutra"!

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  2. Heading to the "outback"?
    I love the "enough to kill a brown dog"! I am such a cigarette hater...

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  3. Cynthia 'to kill a brown dog'is one of our
    great Aussie expressions .Another one is calling someone 'a low mongrel' which is a good insult.We're good at insults down under!

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  4. I didn't know the Aussie expression, but even without it, the images here are great:

    "enough to kill a brown dog
    mongrels to the left chainsmoking
    mongrels to the right chainsmoking
    hanging out of windows
    a xmas tree of lit fags"

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