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otoliths Page 1 of 7 More Create Blog Sign In OTOLITHS A MAGAZINE OF MANY E-THINGS ISSN 1833-623X 20170724 Owen Bullock alarms I’m a smallish medium and in China I’m extra large if I were an author I’d write a book called . . . bleeding without glasses hiding in junk mail I see a dog in italics that sounds experiential it took me to a place that I wasn’t initiate the force field! clouds contain sentient bacteria the fire alarm is still singing found myself in this paper bag & just kept talking seek me out in a well-lit corridor ayayah! https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/07/owen-bullock.html 7/07/2019 otoliths Page 2 of 7 the bird calls she wears anti-facial recognition make-up Aint Skeered we all self-helped each other there will be mummy and daddy words it throws the potter UK Dunfermline’s like a mini Edinburgh multicultural caffees and stuff, ken have you come far? to befriend the arsonist I’ll wear a bikini to listen to Vivaldi’s Summer p cannot validate q it’s like the beginning of a hologram painted or unpainted buckled, unbuckled I would have changed the loudness of London serviettes on the floor grey quartz and black tourmarine ivy and valerian a seat named after them ants might get me fingers! beer is food https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/07/owen-bullock.html 7/07/2019 otoliths Page 3 of 7 no animals to attract or defend themselves from we’re outdumbered another sock in the road are you a collector or a classifier? swell & surge slip & skip every man and his dog’s got a dog the chattering classes I don’t know what ta-boo-lay is Swiftly see each moment flies See and learn be timely wise Every moment shortens days Every pulse beats time away This the every heaving breath Wafts onto eternal death (Anon) kneeding & clawing nettles & stones he also believed in other more dodgy things like honesty and goodness Crabber’s Nip they have the correct apple pie to custard ratio the best fish ’n’ chips so far power lines moss dangles treasure every sighting I never stopped wanting to be sophisticated in the supermarket twilight zone https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/07/owen-bullock.html 7/07/2019 otoliths Page 4 of 7 me and Brian Clough were crocodile ghostbusters to celebrate the nooks & crannies of god a laster you can buy sexy mother-pucker lipstick Buddha irradiates the wonderful energies of Healing, Luck, Abundance and Happiness eternally. jewels in church and temple ourselves manifested No! Smoking Mixxed Vegetables sultry noise Ox that week I left the dishes vomit bags by my bed No Pride in Genocide Fuck Australia Day he robbed a bank with a cactus garlic, if there’s garlic! flags in the ant hills her family had Sean Connery for their milk boy shaken not curdled 8.56 waiting for the shop to open to buy a cake tin https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/07/owen-bullock.html 7/07/2019 otoliths Page 5 of 7 he carries scales up the mountain gets an ant on his finger licks it off you mention the family who lost a child . . . a butterfly appears twice as worse she was called a blue stocking mention humanitarian aid and the room empties have you heard the good news that Iesu died for us and rose again? no. I memorised everyone at St Vincent’s last name in my class wow! the busker’s only word Fred in sidewalk cement people who use the word deplorable snobs are those ill at ease with themselves? golf balls & kangaroo dung I like the word ‘model’ it’s a very looky sort of place the whole car’s a handbag Seduced Hair cowshit plaster for a pond? Love, love me do! https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/07/owen-bullock.html 7/07/2019 otoliths Page 6 of 7 the analyst said I don’t even know you I get an electric shock from water choke on an imaginary conversation I’m a zombie without a voice they’re all good people I spose bus stop, he shouts: one church is enough! I didn’t want to get all feministy and human rightsy about it couplets and shit Owen Bullock is a New Zealand poet who has been resident in Australia whilst completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Canberra, looking at the poetry of Alistair Paterson, Alan Loney and Michele Leggott. He has two new collections forthcoming in 2017: semi (Puncher & Wattmann) and Work & Play (Recent Work Press). previous page contents next page POSTE D BY M ARK YO UNG AT 1 2: 4 1 PM 0 COMMENTS: POST A C OM ME NT << Home https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/07/owen-bullock.html 7/07/2019 otoliths https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/07/owen-bullock.html Page 7 of 7 7/07/2019