Northbourne Traffic

from Taking Inventory by Jim Dusty

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the traffic on northbourne avenue always drags its feet at this time of the afternoon like a schoolboy made familiar with the feeling of defeat it hangs in his mind and the passage of time seems irrelevant and as I sit behind the wheel the minutes march by in fives while I wonder where the months went and where the years did hide I see a young magpie tearing pieces of flesh from its mother who met her untimely demise on someone’s front bumper and I’m reminded as I oversee this disturbing display that every creature who has ever lived on this tiny rock in space will have its final day one for the master one for the slave and one for the little boy with the heavy heart and only himself to blame the voices of strangers provide some afternoon dramatics in heated tones they argue and break their way through the static and I hear one declare that the age of entitlement is dead and the heirs to the earth will be left to clean up their mess while media monsters growl and bare their teeth to win the first bite of the TV rights to a tragedy if it bleeds it leads while corruption sneaks by disguised as a cloud on the breeze unnoticed until the storm hits but every doomsday ends the same did you see that diversion yo check out this new outrage well I’ll take something for the pain as I untie my shoes and examine a life cut into bite-sized pieces by organised time 

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from Taking Inventory, released September 27, 2017

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