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Old Crow Monday by Paul Hardacre

[Above] Photo of Paul Hardacre by Marissa Newell, 1999.

Paul Hardacre


Old Crow Monday

         'All the amores
of Spanish earth you see
were not in vain - '

- Jack Kerouac, Heaven

one zero five is the room & we fuck
& the lightbulb is bare / like a plug
in the ceiling or sky on the wall which
is blue in a wash over bayon the faces
it seems like the painter was tired of
the heat & the monks with their sticks &
their habit of asking for breakfast for free
or a ride on a moto to where? i'm not sure
to a room where the walls have survived
like the reading lamp / ghosts of the children
of before the time when the party had opened
its eyes to the enemies start with a knife &
end in abundance of skulls & some rice or
of northwest in famine explosions you see
it makes sense now you rewrite the bit about
incest & strings of revisionist cells or you'll
eat your own shit on a spoon (& not waste it)
the section in red marked 'away to the west'
to be sure it is waiting the sunken red carpet
of time with the agent familiar as bowie or
old crow hotels in the cigarette night & like
paper & keys & the green cross is seasonal

About the Poet Paul Hardacre

Paul Hardacre was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1974. In 1998, he received an Individual Project Grant from Arts Queensland to write a collection of poetry, Millennium Fetish, exploring the undercurrent of frustration, powerlessness, and despair of contemporary youth at the end of the 20th Century. In early 2000, he was commissioned by Express Media to edit the 'Junk' section of their triple-anthology Tiny Epics (Express Media, 2001). In mid-2000, he founded papertiger media with the assistance of his partner and designer Marissa Newell. He has published his own poetry widely in literary journals in six countries, and has read his work on radio and at literary events throughout Australia.
   [Above] Photo of Paul Hardacre by Marissa Newell, 1999.

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