Rather a shock (2017)

Rather a shock (2017)

(November 6, 2017) Rather a shock. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)

Rather a shock

i.m. Alan Rickman (1947-2016)


to think it’s been 25 years since
Truly Madly Deeply
1991

my sister died
or rather
killed herself

so hungry ghosts
seemed documentary realism
to me

living by Lake Pupuke 
with its gigantic eels
and those students next door

who had to pump up the stereo
to psych themselves
into going out

every evening
1991
an unhappy time

as Rickman said
roles win Oscars
actors don’t 

that swing inscribed for 
Alice who used to play here
that makes the other parents

hold onto their kids
so tight
as if death were another infection

they might pick up

(15/1/16-7/5/17)

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