CULTURE SHOCK
In Perth’s 'Culture Centre Art Gallery' coffee shop,
The pulse of an artist’s city.
Just watching them all walk by
All nationalities
All different lives
Rushing
Strolling
Food in mouths or hands
Disabled bodies, or minds
Purple haired or green or red
All seeking ‘that special something’
That could change their lives
Coming and going,
Backpacks, school books
Visual dairies
Briefcases, nine to five
Or just sitting at this coffee shop
Chatting about life’s great explores
While ‘blues’ music pipes from speakers
Later in a food hall
Caucasian male using chopsticks
While the Asian wife used fork and spoon
While I watch, eating Continental roll
with Italian cappacino.
The Rambling
Years ago I was sinking
in deep, dark despair.
to the gutter
I was the bar stools companion.
Matrimony Maternity Menopause
All have similar connotations
bringing heartachev
confusion, frustration and depression.
You came along
lifted me
to heights way above the air.
You saved my life, my liver
and my dignity.
FAULTS
Now,
I can't remember why
I fell in love with you.
I remember the bad like
a recurring nightmare.
Your hair was much longer
than mine and your vanity
needed the mirror space.
You plucked your nose
hairs in the rear view
mirror as you drove.
You left the toilet
seat UP.......
You yelled at me and
said words that rhyme
with "FireTruck" but oh!!
you said you were a 'Christian'.
and I was not perfect
for "Mr Perfect"
Hypocrite!
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