blunt caws of raven
hack the morning open
for the sharper melodic procedure
of butcherbird
on the dripping
hanging carcase
black men prefer dreaming
while the white men’s dreams are a
coloured
a coloured film
over waking eyes
American suburbia
a slick of oil
pouring on the land
a seeping greasy froth
settling
unconscious.
what do the women do
people
the coloured
coloured film
on waking eyes
and dreaming
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