Institution (slow text version)

Thursday, June 29, 2017


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Institution

Monday, June 26, 2017


a pigeon
feeds from the
floor
of the museum
cafe

poisoned like
the rest
of us
(at tables)

the simulated
rainforest next door
encases
what’s left
of indigenous
Melbourne

perch and crayfish pause
in cut outs
into once was food
commons

a Pandora of a Kulin trace
the reticulating pump 
pretending hope and abundance
shameless womb envy 
of a building; 
idea

















I took Blackwood to see the whale bones, fishing spears and shell strings at the Melbourne Museum today. We stopped by the cafe for some nourishment. It was a brief moment of civil sucking and gut killing, all in all a bad move, which triggered this poem.

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