Friday, June 19, 2009

In the jungle

Long tales, intrepid
with hot bath endings
Brown water and muddy banks
Forest men with orange hair
and orangutans to
Edged by palm oil rats
Board walks to somewhere, to skate in - mudslide
A noisy place at 3 in the morning - good noise but
Crook necks and squinting eyes flick left and right
seeking shadowy shapes and silhouettes up there
Long sleeved coats required if you please
in 35 degrees
On long boats up long rivers filled with interested white faces
Bodies damp from 3 day sweat and night time rain
Bloated, puffed eye lids betray messy sleeps with crazy strangers from other planets
And hovering suckers don't leave
They'll be there tomorrow
unlike me, just visiting

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