Aug 29 2010
Westfield World
In the catalogue
models cavort at Aotea Lagoon
pubescent girls playing mother
to well-wiped toddlers
nothing like the weekday mums,
lank hair scraped back
bulging nappy bags and op shop clothes:
no child has passed those narrow hips
Wednesdays
the waggers congregate
on the children’s playground,
always the same time
they must hate that teacher
The girls meet my eye,
make room for the kids at the top of the slide
they all want babies
Pumpkin Patch babies
Westfield catalogue babies
The boys can’t sit still
they dangle, one arm one leg
hanging
nothing better to do
except punch and fight and screw.
There’s only babies, and girls,
in the catalogue
and for these kids
that’s true
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