PROJECT REBUILD


PREVIOUS TENANTS

Vancouver Special

hand to mouth tangled groans 

to cold plate rusted out like fridge 
and springs, few teeth grip into 
something anyway the sink is
plugged. The mattress is bugged!
he's bugged.
 
What can he not afford?

i mac, in toronto can't afford ford 
in vancouver, north and west. 
books, music, art shows, restaurants
he can't afford. Good liquor! That's right I said
gee oh oh dee el i cur! ... a shower a shirt
a roof a shhhh.. ... tooffpaste towel sheeets
are we farther west, witch feeling? which 
feeling?  ——   further east, with feeling.

Lynn McClory

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BIO:
reads and writes in toronto. thank-you, sachiko. project rebuild is brilliant!