Booted up
In the Avon loop
A number 2
With the Avon loopies
Always grey
Always cold
That Christchurch cold
Five layers deep
From gabardine to singlet
Timing perhaps
A baby and
A neoliberal winter
(Fuck you David Lange)
The winter of our disconnect
For fiddling the power meter
Bruce Curtis
Bruce Curtis was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1961. Bobby Darin’s version of ‘You must have been a beautiful baby’ was number one the week he was born. Great things followed from this auspicious start. He works as a sociologist at The University of Auckland. He is married to Cate. He strives to be loving and laconic in his poetry. He wishes he had started thirty years ago; he would be so much better now.
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