Poetry
Two
AFTER THE ORGY
i is an / ugh it’s an ignoramus
jamais jamais u say / or maybe nether nether
its inland sequel is counting on this Eur
optic allusion to echo it &/ or braise it w/
outsourcery in terror pots of ennui & rain
flowers overtly peer out
no less ensorcelled than stoner food
so naturally some cat
whose deputy moi disappoints
is appointed montage
& the relevant delusion is a man w/ money
& ici an aussi trysting the rules
that like a tonne of organic eclairs
drape a new noir across the Bois-like lures
i’ll pass on the pas des deux thanx
get to the point
that our swords had a tang & whereas o
& u caressed me w/ red tape
worms castigated
our puerile & futile violence toward the budding
bourgy eggheads burgeoned & now
log on to download God from the bots
i dance on the verge of & purity deserts
time lore & legislation
deploying a Leunig moon
night unshackles
dense w/ chaos & glass above the hotel’s pole
fat spleen bats careen about
a party rented out by a billion celebs
channelled through cathodes to audit each
Everest movie premiere in which Madame
XXX turns tables on a P&O
coming down from the Alps i clock out
from the party but land on its feet & like another
glib latency we did
pirouettes for cock & held a tournament
our comprehension of bras was
so hammed up a unicorn in denial of plaques
flogged the place & although rustling
infants regarded this
mauve imagery as a great maze of in vitro
in a coruscating vein today
fumes w/ magazines that mate
& guesstimate like machine guns spitting out why
why why do bats on castor
sugar always sing in technicolour
a cirque de slander let’s elope
my funnel webs my blemishes
we’ll sing chez Bluebeard’s at the abbatoirs
taking pot-shots at Targét
at the haughty few who suck back the gravity
of long tirades & bark in voices
our settler mess ruing the grand
spent at the sales
where flowers retrograde queerly
mercurially déjà
voodoo & u who peer at my cash my
precious poor lark’ll hit the ceiling we’ll traverse
toilets dissing the clock
wise anti-delirium & go back
Down Under where the rest sank Freud
après the ludic deluge
ici aussi
totes
GEN Y
daze of body & soul come to a / won’t come to an
end on this / the last night of dearth
browsing eBay & Etsy / the Cloud i erode
drops in & butts out like a tide
u appear in my inboxed head eating snow
eggs & depression for dessert as if
Bondi Beach were fatigued of its breathing
unsound government ships the crowds
back off into knots i glance at
the sea / poles flip & newspolls murk / spill
over / as vague as a wave it is
career weather for doze who believe He loves us
all in the choked capital of wherever
i / u / our brain didn’t go
looking for grief after noon / it found us
in the form of an algorithm that could remember
& dismember our feeds / our new dream
scrolls in reverse that echo
(according to music vids & some fat
graphic lips in a txt)
the future consumption of everything before it’s even
been munched thru like ancient gums
suffering Hillsong yr funding’s been
approved by the Ministry for Excellence /
Spirit / __________ but mate
it cannot be redeemed for bodily release
in the Cross shutdown by new police power & assumption that
our impact on the environment won’t be felt
out there in the multiverse
apparitions behove themselves as certain
heads of state racing long into action deferred
mouthing out confected norms as swift & whimsical as
horses for courses men continue to fall from
the sky caused Obama anger / joy /
guilt told a story factoidally
something about the seven plots of our Hadron Collider
existence looping round like hope /
happiness / liberty / __________
but the feelings downloaded got stuck in
a sinkhole / promises resounded
& the earthworms began to travel w/ tradition again / asking
do u remember yr body or bodies
curled up together / wanting to buy for a long time
machine that can fatalize any experience there is/was no terror
that couldn’t be franchised out for all the purple
warming into peepholes online
the storm-rented sky/sea became stationary
another perfect accident for sadness journos to parse out over
the future’s raging culture wars that u & i trouble
for a fleeting exit strategy to the current
maze we fund ourselves in
& numb to the looming crash of
summer / winter air
delicate explosions that fall foam & home
in on the present w/ a superinhuman
affection / pure surface
Contributor
Toby FitchTOBY FITCH lives in Sydney, Australia, works as a bookseller, a teacher, as poetry editor for Overland, and runs the Sappho Books poetry reading series. His books include Rawshock, which won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 2012, and Jerilderies. ‘After the Orgy’, previously published in Cordite, and ‘Gen Y’ are inversions of two of Rimbaud’s Illuminations, and appear in The Bloomin' Notions of Other & Beau, forthcoming with Vagabond Press.