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Sunday, February 12, 2017

GOING DOWN - HOSPITAL POEM

GOING DOWN

Going down he jokes

You’re doing a good job as lift attendant

Cushy job standing here all day drinking takeaway coffee

Talking to people about Trump

Everyone is shaken up

I don’t have anything to add

[Posted on Project 366 on November 10, 2016]

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Labels: Hospital poem, Laureates, lifts, micropoem, Poem, politicians, Project 365 + 1, Trump

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Irish-Australian poet Lizz Murphy has published fifteen books, ten of them poetry titles including Bitumen Psalms - FIPP 2025, The Wear of my Face - Spinifex Press, Shebird, Portraits: 54 Poems and Six Hundred Dollars - PressPress, Walk the Wildly - Picaro/Ginninderra Press, Stop Your Cryin - Island Press, Two Lips Went Shopping (print & e-book) - Spinifex Press. Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (ed. Spinifex Press 1996, 2000) popular in Australia, Ireland, UK, US, Canada, NZ, is still available. Published widely in Australian journals and anthologies with publication also in Canada, China, England, India, Ireland, Poland, US. She writes between Binalong NSW and Canberra ACT and is a former Canberra Times Poetry Editor.

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