Wet and Forget

from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems by Michael Botur

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The poet cleans out old emotions.

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Loudmouth collects 15 years of page and pub poems from one of New Zealand’s most dynamic young writers.

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Wet and Forget

I’m hosing out my head
waterblasting regrets, unpeeling lichen stickers.
Here’s one stuck:
slithering belts unbuckled
methane breath inside the cold damp duvet
we scuttled under.
Timid nibbles, your moth lips
a cavern of nitrogen
your mildewed clothes beside
a dribblin’ Wellington window.
Theories on your flatmates. Illuminati. Conspiracy.

Here’s more mucky fungal memory
hiding under my hypothalamus:
wrestling moves, goose bumps on your belly.
Muscles stiff.
Biting your chin, pinching your skinny wrists
unlocking combination clothes,
letting the loot loose. Frigid moon
a rare glimpse of street-sweepers.
we swapped pink sticky chameleon tongues.
You asked advice on your assignments, agonised.

Time to give the ol’ frontal lobe a goin’ over
(there’s crumbs frozen in the fridge-frost)
Botched and aborted baking
abandoned beers, broken bras
dumpster-diving for expired deli delicacies.
Giggling through uppity meetings
my hand eating your thigh
in the rear of the theatre.
You, twitching, shuddering, an eel dying.
I undid your watch clasp
with teeth and tongue.

One last unpeeling patch, stubborn, needs a scrubbin’:
you, fumblin for your glasses on the nightstand
right-angled, pulling your cardigan armour on
brittle, prickly, bristling, dissecting my text -
Except this is all a guess
I wasn’t even there
I gapped without breakfast
didn’t sweep the crumbs up.
Sorry ‘bout the mess.

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from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems, released March 7, 2021
Michael Botur

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Michael Botur Whangarei, New Zealand

Michael Botur is a New Zealand poet and fiction writer of European heritage. He is author of ten books and has won a bunch of bigshot writing awards.
'Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems' collects 15 years of spoken word verse from one of NZ's most dynamic young poets. Perfect for anyone who loves the personal mixed w the political, a little bit of hip hop and plenty of attitude.
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