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Screenplay: a Poem
FADE IN:
INT. MOVIE THEATER – DAY – ESTABLISHING
We’re in a sparsely populated movie theater.  A film is being shown.  It is silent and there is no music.  We HEAR the adhesive sound of feet shuffling on sticky, black floors, which are lined with little lights in a long, plastic tube.  The flickering film [...]

Chromosome 22
For Elizabeth Constance, Peover Churchyard, Cheshire

Same bed and yet they’re poles apart. She’s plagued
by ghosts, to all intents, while he’s moved on.
A voice she feels she knows but can’t quite place:
“What are you doing here, my sweet?” it sighs,
weird stuff that won’t parse out.. While gardening
late afternoon, she reads a shadow in
the sitting room. [...]

DEFECTIVE
This winter
I am as scary
as an escaped murderer.
On a defective radio
of the make Limbo de Luxe
I listen to morning services
from the cathedral in Copenhagen.
The minister takes his text
from the Book of Micah: People
you know what is demanded of you;
justice, love and humility.
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Translated by P. K. Brask

4 Poems
1. I Should Pave MY Front Yard
2. There Is A Mars
3. When Everything Here Is No Longer Alive
4. After Your Old Home Is Empty

an extra one for your friends
I will provide
the Baptist preacher

for setting fire to any house
is a crime greater than murder

he’s like a father
[...]