my mother is a psychic photographer/ her gun
is a camera/ it takes a photo of the family on
xmas day/ they are wearing blue & white/ it
is humid this summer/ my nan is dressed in
florals/ bees fly to her collar/ my brother sits
in king gees/ his legs apart/ my father is not
in the shot/ but in the background/ something
has been picked up/ on film/ plucked out/ of
the high tension wire cables/ has come up/
from the underground sewerage pipes/ as
now manifested itself in the loungeroom/ as
somehow attached itself to this western suburbs
family/ she is wearing a lacy black nightie/ this
teenager is me/ my mother is responsible for
pyschic photography/ look at that photo/ of
yourself/ take it out/ & look at it/ you were
only thirteen/ do you remember hating yourself?/
did you think you were hideous from the inside
out?/ why would a girl feel like a monster inside?/
dress in baggy clothes?/ eat in private?
