I put on
a bowler hat
take an apple
for lunch
& head for
la plage at
Yeppoon
where I en-
gage in
a bit of
plagiarism by
purloining the i-
mages of Magritte
& putting
them forward
as my own.
& on the sixth day She
remade man in their own
image, after their own
likeness, but with minor
differences. The one to
carry a briefcase, & the
other a clean handker-
chief, so that he could
remove the small chips
of stone that would in-
evitably catch in the eye
when tears didn't come.