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Geoffrey Aitken
wake-up call
it
hurtles
into my waking
this
morning light
savagely
shakes
the night
from
my rising
slowly shades
the colour
of my imagining
as i prepare
to volunteer
at
the op shop
where
i serve
a disparate clientele
that clothes itself
in seconds
Geoffrey Aitken is a recovering schizophrenic and former Senior School English teacher who is writing cathartically for those without a voice. He is an emerging poet here in South Australia and published by Underground Writers: Issue 27 & 28 (AUS), the U.S. journals Glass Journal: Poets Resist, Flashes of Brilliance and Sparks of Calliope, and Aesthetica and Militant Thistles, both in the UK. He is not after-dinner suburban congeniality and though older, still requires supervision.
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