There’s just two days left of Bot-tober, so here’s the last of our bot poems to get you through. You can learn about our resident bot and read the earlier poems here.
Click here If you fancy yourself a robo-poet you can take the bot for a spin.
SOUNDTRACK TO HAUNTED WRITERS
this nostalgic late-20s audience
seems closer to defeat
relationships restrained
shipwrecked in narcissism oblivion
like some sort of vapour like
pretending everyone remembers
the world fumbles
pauses in a quiet cafe
fading amid routine: a young sigh
a cigarette between psychologists
poetry like ritual coruscations
scattering fish in mainstream
queue petty anxieties in the rain
break slowly for your memories
a world a moment you watch
or maybe: you don’t
By Raelee Lancaster
MUSIC FELL ASLEEP
memes and books until dusk
lenses of poetry
we're in this world
drawing on our gleam
with swearing scream
between packing movies
while we're universities of being misunderstood
seemed ridiculous to imagine this porn grenade
could actually
replace
light
then candy turned cold
music fell asleep
bridges without bruises
blossom into intolerance
the water of our bodies
decided not
to keep moving
my mouth corpses your dreams
squealing into a blue dearth of dumb dragonflies
above sheets plunging uncontrollably
outgrown cartoons of drug waves
boiled knife once felt clean
now tendrils around clocks synchronised to smoke
more like bemused forests of tourists
performing every bloodstained ballerina dreams
By Sean M Whelan
Raelee Lancaster is a poet, research assistant and creative producer based in Brisbane. Her work has appeared in online and print publications including Overland, Rabbit, Voiceworks and Scum. She tweets @raeleelancaster
Sean M Whelan is a writer, DJ, marriage celebrant and podcaster. His podcast, More Than A Whelan, is themed around writers responding to creative prompts. Send him a prompt and he might write a poem about it.
Maeve Baker is a Melbourne based animator, illustrator and comic artist. She struggles to put down her pen, seeking to communicate relatable content in interesting ways. Maeve is currently employed at 12Field Animation Studio and on an array of freelance animation projects for clients in Melbourne and Brisbane.
