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Screenshot of Times New Roman, 12pt font reading: “Harbourside - yield your power and widen your jaw. Scoop me from indelicate affairs with your tongue, and write an away from office signature for me.”

Screenshot of Times New Roman, 12pt font reading: “Whip me across fleeting Island Bay stability, the most threatening of them all, then suffocate me in parliamentary prose. Dip me into your panoptical breast, dry my tears with your salty buoyancy. Rip me limb by limb by limb So all of me can live somewhere Buried in the fig tree.”

Excerpts from a fresh WIP, tentatively titled “Wellington Temporality, and Maybe, a Goddamn Break”.

Living in Ōtautahi now, but the Wellingtonian identity is one hell of a drug. Withdrawals and all.

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