Afterimage
Reportage to
what end?
Grade 5 Show
& Tell
How do I
present to you his face?
A red tartan scarf held by his specs to form a face mask slash kid’s tv puppet rabbit
Above his
older grey-suited man’s gait
Was he performing a lampoon?
One never knows intention in the Swanston Street parade
But it was certainly very funny
Really tickled my fancy
He looked
like a serious man
But perhaps
that was his schtick?
Its afterimage
echoing throughout the day
In the first poem my first wife translated from the Japanese for me
The word “afterimage”
featured
I was called
to by Japan today 25 years later
In the form of a Suntory Premium Malt beer advertisement
How could I
communicate this to the waitresses?
Such a
polite society
A rambler
like me flounders
2 ears 1 mouth
Whereas I’m
1 mouth 2 ears
& a
little queer
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.
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