escape

7-11 stores, sterile and reliable, cool as refrigerated chocolate

rows of products

vibrate
tingle

like a mushroom trip

wrapped in technicolour packaging

shiny floors make your feet look dirty

blackened roadstained toes and broken sandals

red bull for kicks and amphetamine extras

5am salvation, whisky hallucinations

until the 10am wakeup calls

all sugary sweet and tinged with acrid marijuana

whis

per

ing and tickling in the back of the throat

lending hazy bubbles to disperse the everwilling threat of clarity

lending poetic licence to boat trips and mountain tops and exploding diamond skies

burroughing through lungs diving deeper

on phosphorescent coral trips

horizontal on decks with fishermen promises

jellyfish ridden swim missions

diving from piers

fish in your underwear going slip-slop-flippety-flap

in the yelping night

which sleeps in bedbug mattress itching fits

which wakes with clouded views through mosquito nets

reality tempered in white transparency

confusing the mornings

confused sunblared outdoors

screams -

moto!

moto!

for straddled speeded insanities

past the shopfronts and stalls

past the flashing light stop sign roundabout

faster into oblivion mountains

with the fallside trees

and waterfall themepark slides

carved off the side of a mountain

falling

falling

falling into oblivious oceans

all happy-high and giggling

all imagined notebook frenzies to record

all endless summers which stretch past the night

into the morning

and keep burning like after image flashbacks

white light retinas

vibrate

and

tingle.