fold (mr wilson went in with a hose / and put an end to it) - D.A. Taylor
they put a roll of taxpayer’s single-ply on the lino
sprayed it with lynx flicked a bic and
expected the best two of the cool kids
one who knicked pall malls from
his mum’s frankton market D&G & who
everyone joked about taking out by the skip
really not really
caught the idea
off an older brother anarchy at melville
high smoke & burn out the gym bathroom
and they shot behind the canteen to watch I heard
but the paper didn’t catch just kept almost
-ing enough to stop the lunch fourty-five
we were
spared the fire engines the alarm
didn’t work just got kat g. busting her
polyester elbow and nail bed
on the emergency glass
the carpet tile scabs
still going soft under warehouse specials
on wet days
on nights still
you can hear ben and curtis puffing their
chests ripping codys
a slip of rizzla around their indexes
telling each other how fuckin cool
they were in 2006 still are i suppose
Excel (a found poem) - D.A. Taylor
=
IF(RANDBETWEEN(0,1)=0,"and ","but ")
&
IF(RANDBETWEEN(0,1)=0,"he ","she ")
&
IF(RANDBETWEEN(0,1)=0,"loves "," doesn't love ")
&
IF(RANDBETWEEN(0,1)=0,"her","him")
but she doesn't love her
and she doesn't love her
and he loves him
but he doesn't love him
and he doesn't love him
and he loves her
but he doesn't love her
but she doesn't love him
but she doesn't love her
and he loves him
but he doesn't love him
but she loves her
but she doesn't love her
but he doesn't love her
and he loves her
Contributor's Note
D.A. Taylor is an editor, copywriter and MA graduate of Tracey Slaughter and Catherine Chidgey's writing programme at the University of Waikato.