Oxygen Mask




oxygen mask

ramblings by rob tillett



contains:

when she is sleeping with some-one else

separately together

the parasites problem

summertime

groupie gum poem

rain

i am a cunning southern fox

balloon song

love poem

this is entitled poet

cruisin

"confusion..




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when she

is sleeping

with some-one else



(mumblemumblemumble



JERK



huh?



when she

is sleeping

with

some

one

else

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cruisin

cruisin
 
munga bajunga
 
in my chevrolet
 
uh
 
its a cool, cool saturday night baby
 
you, lithe-like chicken chicken
 
you sleek ocelot
 
wont you come cruisin
 
honey
 
leave your
 
man at home

 
 
 
 

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love poem





tonight

the moon

on your doorstep



& you

etched on the mat..

cars howling in the lonesome night



reaching for the last cigarette

locked in to the last awesome song






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this is entitled

poet
 



the casual cigarette

dalmation
 
tsk
 
the tumbletousled hair
 

 
ambles through his poems
 
lean
 
crisp
 
astringent
 
ambles to a corner
 
newspaper.



malt shop!
 
ambles through an icecream soda
 
ambles
 
      through an
       
		   ice
		      
			cream
			   
				soda
				 
				
				
				 
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i am a cunning southern fox

striped

my notebook

spendthrift stars!

disabled on a listless sunday..





nightingale swamp fox

lord the spectral night

::mmmmmmasochistic

be my spunky social duster

see her press

see her press the plunger





(mexican loco weed)

my friend

my whiteskinned doe

her cathedral of ice

her mumbling galactic corridors

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balloon song





before,

she said

i could never listen to a chord



now

i listen

you know, i can hear it speak




(grass crumbling

     laughing into dust



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groupie gum poem



nchup nchup nchup

	cunh cunh cunh cunh


eeoagh oorgh

	oourgh
	
	aaagh
	
	aaagh
	
	aaagh
	
	aaagh
	
	aaagh
	
	aaagh
	
	aaaoogh
	
    ooooooooooooooooooooo...



pphhhhh


pphewwor




nchup nchup nchup nchup nchup




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rain.





rain swish drip


     splosh
     

     aarghummmmmmmmmmmmmm





pptwink








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the parasites problem..





oouggh!

rope-like hairs

mmmpph!

scalyflaking jungleskin

pphewwor!

hot as buggery

aaaaahhhh! 

feels good, settles in here

pheeet!


where to sink the mandibles?




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summertime

(heads bent to a symphony of clocks






his horny finger raised

translucent euphony of skin



through the window a sack of stolid cloud

who can read these runes?

dress faded to the colour of sauerkraut

cloud clenches rocks








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separately together




SEPARATELY TOGETHER

SEPARATELYTOGETHER
EPARATE


SEPARATELYTOGETHER
SEAPARATE 



SEPARATELY TOGETHER
SEPARATELT YOGETHER
SEPARATETO LYGETHER
SEPARATTOG ELYETHER
SEPARATOGE TELYTHER
SEPART0GET ATELYHER
SEPATOGETH RATELYER
SEPTOGETHE ARATELYE
SETOGETHER PARATELY 



STEOPGAERTAHTEERLY




never works




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"confusion..

 all they can talk about
 
 is confusion.. "




i hung two hundred yards

of CARBON RIBBON

round my exhibition!

poem continuum

nude insomniac/

		plastered & unsleeping -
				
CON

fusion

torn

shredded

busted

pulls out of the dive

arrowstraight:::reelheart

carbon reel

straight for the heart of reality

reality is

BLEEDING/ reality is

..sinking into

COCA-COLA

floating

in a sea of cheese





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oxygen mask
poems by rob tillett
published by brainiac publications & raga arts co-op
(unbelievably, this work was published with the assistance of the Australia Council....)




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Intent is the guide

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