Tripling Absent Bacon

Tripling 

Absent 

Bacon

♠♠♠♠          

Mana-grain bread:

triangle slices of

sky, mountain, trees, and sun.

Nourishment of a promising morning.

♦♥♦♥          

Canoes of Polynesian pixies

carved into palms of trees

provide a shady welcome mat.

Pass Go the caged jungle gym.

♦♥♣♣                  

A variety store displays tropical outfits.

The playful breeze

flicks the fronds of a black coconut tree

against a green Polynesian shirt.

♦♦♥♦          

Rustling siren leaves over three island benches

entice desirous hero faces,

Come, come, triple your dole here.

Trinity temptations: Riches, Pleasure, and ‘Malo, malo, you da man!’

            ♣♦♣♦

Enter the cavern mouth of Chance

Going-nowhere breaths

stagnant over glossy black tabletops. 

Gloom-blue carpet hides the stains of loss

but not the whiff of burnt tobacco.

Skeletal greyhounds on betting screens

cheaper and easier to raise and transport than horses.

Jingles of pokie machines lure seekers deeper.

Asians in Pandora’s booth, Brownies in the game hole

exchanging life savings for imposter Fortune.

Animated crown jewels glare

Horus’ eye looks on suspiciously

Pharaoh faces to the left, to the left

- how far he has fallen.

SHOW ME THE MONEY in candy-pink bold. 

Buttons like fat money bags flash at you 

Bet1, (up to) Bet 20, Spin, Take, Win, Gamble.

         

          ♥♥♠♥

            We have a winner! 

            One one-thousand, Two one-thousand seconds

            of a river gold-rush

            before the winnings are trickled back

            into the smirking slot, for another

            One one-hour, Two one-hour more.

            “Any luck?  I’ll try this one.  If not, then shit aye.”

            Mouths of females with masculine language. 

            Printed white sheets

            posted on fabric covered cork boards –

            obituaries of bank balances

            and family time.

            Brown faces accessorised

            with Made-in-China baseball caps

            that sport American champions.

♦♥♣♠

Back in the outside world, sniggers of siren leaves

rain on op shop Wu-Tang jackets.

Go, go, take your empty pockets back to your hungry home.

Trinity tricks:  Riches, Pleasure, and ‘Faafetai lava, sucker.’

♣♥♠♦

Polynesians buy a variety of Polywear

from Asian displays.

A purple pule tasi sun

sets on a lavalava flower.

♠♥♦♣

The butcher has “Whole Beef, Lamb, Pig, Available”

but not for fractioned wallets.

Silver bullet shit-sheds - call 09 301 0101 for toilet tissues.

Call your relatives for “Pay you back next week, suga” issues.

♥♣♠♦

Cross the zebra bridge again

walk the white planks.

DB Bitter boxer knocked you the fuck out.

Your Mana reduced to crumbs.

First published in the third volume of MIT’s (Manukau Institute of Technology) art journal,

‘Ika 3’.