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G.D ANDERSON
Sitting on Glass When you are young & arrogant or just plain stupid boundaries seem more malleable more open to interpretation less relevant easier to test or shatter especially if you don’t give a fuck about the opinions of others- of friends, family members, workmates, the government- you name it & you have moved thousands of kilometres to avoid your past, authority, in its simplest form you think the whole world revolves around you & really OWES you & you take heavily to the bottle because its fun & crazy & opens up new possibilities in you & others & you think it’s better to die young than to fade away- like a decrepit old man stinking with cancer of the ass hole. I was probably feeling such angst the day my partner invited over some people from her play group for my son’s fourth birthday in Croydon Park. we were outwardly a happy & articulate couple but always on the verge of collapse within we both had an obsession about controlling the situation, & paradoxically, I always felt most alive when the everyday semblance of order was on the brink emploding like a falling deck of cards I remember the day in fragments- soaked in the euphoric haze of a 4 litre cask of Riesling I remember playing with the kids in the back yard shouting at them I remember precariously walking along the canal to the park climbing on the monkey bars & pushing swings & jumping on the merry-go-round I remember laughing & drinking with flatmate Tony up to the bottleshop & later pissed as a mute in the backyard after the parents & kids had left & I remember waking up the next day hungover, tearing away the blood stained sheets to reveal a gaping, wound, requiring several stitches on the inside upper part of my left leg GD Anderson was born in Montreal and presently teaches in Sydney, Australia. He has published dozens of poems recently (or forthcoming) in a variety of publications worldwide; including- New England Review, LINQ, Divan, Five Bells, Muse Apprentice Guild, Unlikely Stories, Thunder Sandwich, Social Alternatives, Zygote in My Coffee, My Favorite Bullet, The School Magazine and Another Toronto Quarterly and several others. He edits the student literary magazine Ephemeral. |
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