Best Albany Poems

The line of people out the door.
The queue that snaked around the floor.
The building's sleek art deco style.
The carpets' faded plush red pile.

The "Coming Soon" in convex frames.
The "Showing Now" and big star names.
The James Bond pose in poster shots.
The tickets from the kiosk slots.

The...

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From hills and orchard row to the Queen’s chain
  plume the toetoe, the ponga’s silver gild -
in planted grove and fertile dairy plain
  droved is the fatted calf and the earth tilled.
White breasted native wood pigeons cooing
  leap bearing fruits and leaves...

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  On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
       with its humourless streets,
    its casino steel and glass Sky Tower
built upon the rubble of a grander age
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I stand on a train to Albany
Whistling a tune out of key
I get many looks
Thrown are many books
As I am trying to sing while I pee

Russell Sivey...

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