Kai Lossgott
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the suburb

long for that mist
 fine grey arousing 
 sweat of the earth
 life of real life
 damp-out the suburb
 walls and the adults

 erase me in rain
 I will seep
 (from my middle-class longing)
 out of the suburbs
 into the mud
 I will be fluid
 fluid    like    me

 before my
 breath on the highway
 fades, become another
 small white 
 wall in the suburb

 still I long
 innards churning 
 dull like pidgeon-song
 dumb like dog shit
 naked in the backyard
 scared of the neighbours

 rain
 erase me in rain