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David Prater edits Cordite http://www.cordite.org.au. He lives in Melbourne, Australia. His first chapbook The Happy Farang (Pumpkin Press, 2000) concerned the adventures of a fictional tourist in Thailand and Laos. His second, 8 poems was published in 2002 by du papa (Melbourne). His work has appeared in Meanjin, Cordite, Jacket, slope, Going Down Swinging, JAAM, papertiger and Short Fuse: A Global Anthology of Fusion Poetry (Rattapallax Press, USA).

 

 
   
david prater - lovers/lateness

meant i didn't make it to your party
after all what was left to do there
short of breath & panting stagger
in & grab the neatest spirit sweats
a stalker stares my back down glow
eyes shaded & a deep long ache of
lovers: lateness - we are infinitely
excusable a drip in an ocean's vein
take that attitude elsewhere buddy
slap yourself around & try to make
idle conversations with bores while
your lover glares at ice cubes melt
we're not long for this relationship
please pardon me i lost track real
time players on my moon is just an
mpeg download now or stream this
string of scripts & tasselated hair
inside their eyes dim knowledge of
the bees a car park someone's new
wristwatch dangles like a refugee
bat did you miss the show too bad
it was a ripper but they started up
with this time there are no refunds