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Andre Martin
Martin Lochner comes from Cape Town,South Africa. He spend most of his leisure days in town observing the city life and goes home to compose his work.  
By Andre Martin
Published on 08/3/2011
 
Poem

the booth

As expected: 00h00

 

1

 

I denied you a “turn around” with a telecom nickel in the slot

destroying us through the greasy worn receiver ,

etching feelings that carved through the  static speaker 

I had a slashing thirty minutes with you and a queuing,

old bitch complaining about the cold and the verbal abuse

 

 2

 

An inflammation of feeling stains the road, the fields and the river

 

“How could you “

“How could you “

 

Gruesome sad blues turns into a stretching, elastic feeling

of black, every fucking city colour drowning morbidly into its swell 

dark, stumbling, loitering for another empty booth 

 

3

 

Detonating fear through hoarse ambulances, police and kids

looking through dirty curtains crying
 

“where are you now “

“Where are you now “

 

4

 

The nickel falls, hits the stainless steel belly flat

it makes a bad sound that says “Clank”

 

The phone never rings 

it’s disconnected, it peeps...peeps

 

She is with him



 

5

 

(He is fucking her)