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Volume 10 Number 1, April 2009

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Per Brask

 

 

DOMESTICITY

 

can seem never ending

so ground into the earth, so boring

but it’s where real life happens

 

not that the life of the mind doesn’t count

just that it only counts in so far as it has effects

right here.  Like why does the back lane

get so neglected in favour of the front?  First thing

most of us see as we venture into our other worlds

 

that’s actually a discarded car down there and the garage

on the right is near collapse.  These are properties not homes

at least at the back.  Their fronts tell another story

 

I wave to people here and they wave back

and we all wish that here where we live

were as exciting as life in our best dreams