Security Measures
In the interests of Personal Safety,
should you encounter behaviour,
objects, or items you consider
to be literature, contact Security,
the Police, the Mental Health
Hotline, or approach any uniform,
including pilots, Quarantine
inspectors or cabin crew,even
carousel sniffer dogs have been
known to sit down beside luggage
containing books by Rupi Kaur.
Please report the following:
a passenger nodding sagely
while reading 'The Complete
John Ashbery’; those who swear
they can find acrostic poetry
on Flight Information boards;
a limousine driver at Arrivals
holding a sign: Lagavulin Lovers
Welcome Geoffrey Hill;
a First Officer introducing
the captain, then giving an update
on conditions in rhyming couplets;
people who are close to coming
to blows over whether
performance poetry translates
well on the page, or those
already throwing punches after
being told the stage is anathema
to any understanding of where
- © Anthony Lawrence 2022
Anthony Lawrence’s most recent book of poems is ‘Ordinary Time,’ a collaboration with Audrey Molloy. His collection ‘Headwaters,’ won the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for poetry. He is a senior lecturer at Griffith university where he teaches Creative Writing. He lives on Moreton Bay.
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