SYDNEY #2:

Same thing as yesterday,
She remembered me,
With a luminous face,
Pearl pink nails,

The swagger she,
The glass she,
The water she,
Clutch,

Everything I need,

Watching the world,
In Pink shirts & ties,
Executive coffee sippers,
Flick through the news,
Wait in line for a shot,
Craving,
Pick-me-up,

The wind drops,
Giant wheels arrive by escalator,
Mouths talk to themselves,
Strawberries dive into crushed ice,

Hope is a biscuit,
Love is a message

(K)

SYDNEY #1:

Back scratcher at the bus stop,
Karangahape road,

Smiling runner keeps running,
Never stops,
Mission Heights 500,

Super Shuttle,
Drop me off,
The corner will do,

Painted Arrow,
Black Stick,
Black Can,
Black Tape X on a running leg,

Lava rock,
Sleeping rough,

Five dollar parking,
Barbed wire dragonfly,

Atomic brick house,
City eye,

Icon,
Home,

The kiss,
The light,

A plastic bag resting in a flowerbed,

Hand painted jacket boy,
Waits at the bus stop,
Thinks he looks great,
And for a fleeting second,
Is,

Phantom bill sticker,
Tow away zone,
A plastic bag tied to railings,
Dancing in breeze & sunlight,

Hope rises,
A paper plate gets a tan at the side of the road,
A weeping wall exudes ghetto fudge,
A plastic bottle lies down,
In sun,
In shadow,
In the garden,
Sleeping,

Two paper cups kiss,
One paper King watches,
A can & a bottle make forbidden union in the gutter,

The mountain will eat it’s self,
Look away,

(K)

AUCKLAND #5:

It’s not what goes in the cabin,
It’s what goes in the hold,

I’ve got three five dollar bills,
Can’t wait to spend ’em,

Well,
No-no,
It’s all good,

Yeah,
I think,
Yeah-yeah,

Come & do the Wednesday,
It’s only half an hour away,
Roadside chickens rain on the rich

Listening to Stump – ‘Buffalo‘

(K)

AUCKLAND #4

Crossing the Louisville Ridge,
Did you feel it?
What we lost,
What we gained,

I tried to send a message,
I didn’t go,
Are you sleeping?

Listening to The Temptations – ‘Happy People‘

(K)

AUCKLAND #3

The had already sharks,
Side parking,
One pulled Miramar hard driveway,
Ping of grass,
And the sidewalk,

As,
Stared street outdoors,
Wait said Dez,
We can do that,

Walk the sloping aprons,
Decisions,
Enforcements,
Outcry,
Traffic Angels high,
Rising fluke,
Crash people vision,
When?

Music fairy had grown original,
Rotation & updated,
The heart within the first two minutes,

Beautiful life,
Belonged process,
Spoke,
Collected,
Witnessed,
Though not text,

People forget how you made them feel,
Sole head ordained,

Differences grow,
Remain,

Mouth immersed in a road,
Makes Birthday presents,

But this could enjoy,
Attached,

The Thursday for road,
The Birthday,
A coincidence,
Doubtful being infrastructure,

Finally candles,
Nagging transportation,

A comfy Birthday,
Single system,
Expand presence,
New,
Released,

Key healthcare proposed,
Although question paid,
Swerved,
Under which february?

Cover for every of service,
Healthcare habit,
Gifts the program,
Eliminate would I the system,

A wet,
Expected,
Inundated lottery,
Beating often,
Did their grizzles,

Three,
And earned Angels position,
Draft experience,
Games played hard,

Obviously,
Recently,
The glass tonight is a slow-down,
Out the rebound,

It the fact,
Those on the glass,
Attack on the defence,
Stuff it with improved hair,

Phoenix the of fall,
If for in up South,
So penalised,
Pacific,

Crossing the Louisville Ridge,
Did you feel it?
What we lost,
What we gained,

I tried to send a message,
An invitation,
Did you get it?
What day is it?

(K)

AUCKLAND #2:

Walking the curb,
Late at night,

Moths,
Beetles,
And other bugs,

The city jumps,
Parks & rides,
The winning hurler hangs tough,

Double-double Angels
Discovered imperfect,
The basics have shifted

(K)

AUCKLAND #1:

One Mother,
One Father,
One Sister,
One Brother,
One Daughter,
One Son,
One Neighbour,
One Lover,
One Friend,
On the news,
In the underground,

Left home in the morning,
Never came back,

Just another day in Paradise

(K)

MEXICO #5

There’s a man,
Balancing on an old lorry tyre,
In the middle of the road,
Juggling Silver,
Spinning a ball on a stick in his mouth,
He rolls the tyre beneath his feet to the side of the road,
Dismounts before the lights change,
Walks between the cars for money,
Slips the money in his back pocket,
And repeats,

There’s a bird in a tree,
On the other side of the road,
That sounds like a machine,
Above a patch of dirt where women sell strings of beads,
And bottled water,
In the shade of the tree where the machine birds sings,
Waiting for the lights to change,
To peddle their wares to motorists,

There’s a kiosk,
At the gates to a meat-fest restaurant,
Where semis park up at night to sleep,
The kiosk is made from an old truck cab,
Nose cut off,
A single light bulb,
Hanging off a piece of wire inside,
Illuminates the cab at night,
Where a lone woman stares out through the windscreen,
Waiting for a road to appear,

Vulcan Izadora sells old truck tyres,
On the dirt patch where lorries sleep,
A nativity scene,
Waiting for the people & animals to be returned,
By a giant benevolent hand,
Or just,
A sign

(K)

MEXICO #4

Did you ask for what you wanted?
Did you see anything you liked?
I feel like an alien,
Everybody looks as we walk,

Cristal Taxi,
Solid slogan,
Drive thru,
Quit your job,
Spin the ball,

(K)

MEXICO #3

You have to have a date line,
It’s a made up thing,
A day isn’t real,

It’s only when they built the trains,
That’s when everyone’s time had to match,
Before that it was the dawn,

I got a feeling that I don’t understand,
But I do understand,
But maybe it’s obvious,

If you never had a day & night time would stand still,
But it changes one second every day,
Quarter of a mile at a time,

And time goes slower higher up,
And the faster you travel the slower time gets,
And if you travel at the speed of light time stands still,

We came off six minutes late the other night,
Something went wrong with time,
Whatever

(K)