CAT RUNS COUNTRYSIDE Come down in hard drops/ unfamiliar suburb /jeans hot and sticky and cigarette smoke stranger turnaround and pull the bastard humming mid-70s Dylan tracks on baby stuck fantasy/ Macbeth is showing tonight at theatre fools in disguise/ we hit the loud city running orange light operation Henry Miller in pocket stand with onions fried and wandering lot in big city/ never trust you out of sight again/ black-leather jacket youth on strong and hide smell of falling-apart Charley Lamb/ off the red bus winding its way through never left home/ cat runs countryside upstairs with long-haired hippy in overheated bookstore in the reeds without any oxygen/ bright-eyed bleeding bleak skies and rain-torn police street straight into burger stand/ just a teenager lost in beatnik station and night arrest for daring to breathe - GARY CUMMISKEY, from Truncated biopsy, cut-ups * Gary Cummiskey is a South African poet and publisher living in Johannesburg. He is the editor of Dye Hard Press, which he started in 1994. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including Romancing the Dead (Tearoom Books, Durban 2009), Sky Dreaming (Graffiti Kolkata, India 2011) and I Remain Indoors (Tearoom Books, Stockholm 2013). In 2009, he published Who was Sinclair Beiles?, a collection of writings about the South African Beat poet, co-edited with Eva Kowalska. An expanded and revised edition of the book was published in 2014. Also in 2009, Cummiskey compiled Beauty Comes Grovelling Forward, a selection of South African poetry and prose published on the US literary website Big Bridge. His debut collection of short fiction, Off-ramp, was published in 2013 and was short-listed for the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award in 2014. His work has been translated into French, Greek and Bangla. He was editor of the South African literary journal New Coin from 2013 to 2016.
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