J.S. Harry Poems

They use a pronoun called I
all the time. It seems to hop around
with them.
But you can’t see it properly
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When Peter wakes, it is night again.
Joshua has returned. There’s a radio
& a full sack of barley
On the floor. Josh says he found both
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Peter wonders if pigs could fly
& thinks, yes, they could, pink & squealing,
if someone put them in a helicopter.
He doesn’t know it’s NOT
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Plink! plink! Polluted water drips from a rusty pipe,
onto something in a dark corner.
Peter wakes to this sound.
He remembers entering the city
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Peter Henry Lepus is not fond of “Prefaces”; he says that though they are the “face” you
see before the “face” of the other writing, he feels they should more properly be called
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On the first fleet
were several silverish
grey haired rabbiters.
On arrival they bred quickly.
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