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Anthony Gee
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GREG NOT GREGORY, A STUDY OF CREEPING
VICTIMHOOD.
What happened to you?
Now you know what happens to everyone else,
fat on the tabloid miseries
of those who get as close as
any will get,
your face is a turnip
that thrives in the dirt,
going down, growing down,
all the abuse that fell to you
is now in the beef of your fleshy hands.
Do you know the power you have?
You make others feel the burn
no more mortal than the merest among us
no surrender to the morning
that spawns you every day.
What happened to you?
you were hammered out of a wreck
dreamed up by a sadist,
the need to be loved so great
that you've forgotten you need to love
you vowed to hold your breath in defiance
and your body rebelled against you
so much of you still
overpowers death
what happened to you
is happening to all of us.
Anthony Gee is the lighthouse keeper on a
rocky shore of broken tourists, otherwise
known as Australia. By day he does various
menial, yet character building jobs and by
night he writes poems and short stories,
draws pictures and fronts his band, The
Handsome Women. Anthony fears nothing save
for big cockroaches and blank sheets of
paper. His favourite colour is probably the
same as yours.
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